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Anna Kornbluh is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where her research and teaching center on literature, film, and Marxist cultural theory. She is the author of The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space, and Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club, and Realizing Capital.
  • Immediacy [Excerpt]

    Immediacy [Excerpt]

    Republished here is an excerpt from Anna Kornbluh’s “Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism,” a sure to be controversial analysis of the ways in which the immersion of the circulation economy has changed everything from writing to video to theory itself.