Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "…

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