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This idea, now known as correlationism, has been popular in Western philosophy for about two centuries. We just encountered it in our exploration of different kinds of ‘realizer’. Again, the idea is that things in themselves don’t exist until they have been ‘realized’, rather like the way a conductor might ‘interpret’ a piece of music or a producer might ‘realize’ a screenplay in a movie.
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
The problem, however, was that this idea of culture went rather too deep. It seemed to suggest that actual social differences — being a woman rather than a man, or a landowner rather than a window cleaner — didn’t really matter. And this was rather more convenient for men and landowners than it was for women and window cleaners. As long as culture brought us together in spirit, we could remain the mutually hostile, vastly unequal people we actually were. Culture seemed to make all the difference, and yet to make no difference at all.
Britain Is Stronger Divided
Terry Eagleton
Exacerbating this hegemony, immediacy animates even contemporary critical theory that now sidles too close to its objects, embracing rather than disarticulating dominant logics. Labeling this everythingness is a gesture toward reestablishing theoretical distance, though initially grasping the problem is tricky—a list-y, circuitous, roving vibeology.
Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Anna Kornbluh
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