autotheory

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I was deeply discouraged by Kornbluh’s chapter on “autotheory,” defined as those works where theorists present ideas in unsynthesized fragments and spontaneous insights (much as I do on this sub-academic, culturally negligible Substack), effecting a “reduction of theory’s mediations down to amiable oozing.”

Infinite concretude Rob Horning 2024