Anna Kornbluh's 'Immediacy' (Verso, 2024) locates a novel style in capitalism's crisis of accumulation. The 'immediate' is expressed in performance art, celebrity coffee table books, autotheory and the “colonoscopy cinematography” of contemporary film. Gabriel Meier addresses the critique of political economy that underlies Kornbluh's periodization and plies the mediacy of immediacy.
Bellona Magazine is a biannual journal and publishing collective.
We are a group of artists, culture workers and writers who seek a new paradigm for critical expression. Against the “creative” forms of mass consumption and instrumentalized social relations that predominate in the culture industries today, Bellona is our attempt to resituate criticism as a site of contemplation and contestation. Our primary object of critique is music, specifically its circumscription in the commodity-form, but our interests also range to film, literature and the visual arts, all undergirded by a broad political economic critique. At this conjuncture, it is difficult to imagine a music or a criticism unbound from contemporary exploitation, extraction and subsumption, but Bellona Magazine aims to collectivize the tools currently at hand so as to build towards that future.
