Did you know I have a vault? It's a place where a lot of my ideas are kept. Today I explored a new genre or concept called autotheory. If you're familiar with it or interested in it, go have a read. Bookmark the vault and check back often as I frequently add new things.
#autotheory #existentialism #philosophy #writing
https://therebelvault.dellawren.com/naming-my-thoughts-a-journey-into-autotheory
Staying with e-Flux… also appreciated this engagement with auto-theory as an instance of anti-theory from Anna Kornbluh.
For her, auto-theory pushes ‘academic theory to empty out its own medium, to undo its own medial differences from commercial writing. It is good to make theory available. It is bad to portray the historical erosion of theory’s conditions of production, including the reproduction of the professional-intellectual class, as an endogenous style evolution of self-proclaimed “weak theory” and “amateur criticism.”’
‘we can conclude of autotheory not only that it enkindles senior academics imagining eager readerships beyond the academy, but also that … its elasticity portends a space for young academics to create work and find recognition even though the university as a viable workplace has largely expelled them.’
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/589060/against-anti-theory
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