{"product_id":"various-autotheory-and-its-others","title":"Various: Autotheory and Its Others","description":"\u003cp\u003ePunctum Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Becky McLaughlin, Eric Daffron, Maria Gil Ulldemolins \u0026amp; Kris Pint\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEver since Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts gave the word fresh currency a decade ago, autotheory has infiltrated scholarly, literary, and artistic practices.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutotheory and Its Others\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtributes to this nascent metacritical conversation. An inclusive discourse, autotheory embraces its uncanny double, allotheory, and, thus, this collection invites to the table a host of uncanny others: psychoanalysis, queer theory, and crip theory as well as art writing, postcriticism, and autofiction, among other genres and discourses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together four editors and thirteen contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, this collection of critical and creative-critical essays grapples with what it means to couple the personal with the theoretical. The volume’s chapters feature geographical settings as far-flung as New Zealand, Iran, and Mississippi and its wide-ranging topics include anecdotal theory and dialogia–theoria, the bodymind and illness, artificial intelligence and experimentation, accident and fantasy, collages and fragments, unlearning and autopractices, unknowing and the unconscious, uncertainty and art writing, narcissus and trauma, kudzu and pedagogy, memory and legend, autofabulation and religion, and lo-fi critique and academia. Ultimately,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutotheory and Its Others\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshowcases this emergent genre’s diversity while also charting its multivalent future directions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45372669820951,"sku":"9781685713270","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1784696911-900.jpg?v=1785967538","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/various-autotheory-and-its-others","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}