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Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Theory Rules: Art as Theory / Theory as Art
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
the history of feminism is, in a sense, a history of autotheory—
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
which means acknowledging intersections
Tisa Bryant’s Unexplained Presence (2007), Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work (1995), Julietta Singh’s No Archive Will Restore You (2018), and McKenzie Wark’s Reverse Cowgirl
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
autotheory points to modes of working that integrate the personal and the conceptual,
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Most simply, the term refers to the integration of theory and philosophy with autobiography, the body, and other so-called personal and explicitly subjective modes.
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
a performative mode of citation alongside a postmemoir, queer feminist life-writing text.
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
its histories appear in the politics of who has access to writing in ways considered theoretical and critical—
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
This archive is open-ended and intuitive, scrupulous and rooted as much in scholarly research and sober reflection as in gut-based understanding and critico-synchronistic happenstance.
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
What is the relationship between autotheory and artistic agency and becoming?