this is how autotheory started
November 12, 2024 at 11:45 AM
this is how autotheory started
"...a onetime fundraiser has written something between a tell-all and a cri de coeur about her time inside the Democratic Party." I'm not gonna read this, but it has prompted me to imagine fun genre mash-ups: Hayekian autotheory, bildungsroman sudoku, TESCREAL Amish romance...
Evan Barker quit the Democratic Party and voted for Trump. Now she’s telling (a few) stories about what she saw in a new book that mixes gossip and condemnations of ‘woke.’ Her old colleagues aren’t happy.
The New Book Democrats Hate — and Can’t Stop Talking About
Evan Barker quit the Democratic Party and voted for Trump. Now she’s telling (a few) stories about what she saw in a new book that mixes gossip and condemnations of ‘woke.’ Her old colleagues aren’t happy.
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September 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM
"...a onetime fundraiser has written something between a tell-all and a cri de coeur about her time inside the Democratic Party." I'm not gonna read this, but it has prompted me to imagine fun genre mash-ups: Hayekian autotheory, bildungsroman sudoku, TESCREAL Amish romance...
i wish analytic philosophers were allowed to just say 'i'm doing autotheory' rather than sublimating it in implausible universal claims
September 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
i wish analytic philosophers were allowed to just say 'i'm doing autotheory' rather than sublimating it in implausible universal claims
Explore the literary & artistic practice that combines autobiography & critical theory with the editors of "Autotheories." @citylightsbooks.bsky.social hosts a free, virtual inquiry into #autotheory on March 1st! Register: https://citylights.com/events/autotheory-encounters-embodiments-critique/
February 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Explore the literary & artistic practice that combines autobiography & critical theory with the editors of "Autotheories." @citylightsbooks.bsky.social hosts a free, virtual inquiry into #autotheory on March 1st! Register: https://citylights.com/events/autotheory-encounters-embodiments-critique/
MAGICAL/REALISM (2024) is a critical essay/autotheory collection connecting popular fantasy to the migrant experience, and was longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and other awards.
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gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
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November 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
MAGICAL/REALISM (2024) is a critical essay/autotheory collection connecting popular fantasy to the migrant experience, and was longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and other awards.
squirted out some subbystacky musings on some autotheory type ish vectorepisteme.substack.com/p/see-you-in...
its ya boi
its ya boi
SEE YOU IN THE ALTERFUTURE
Why haven’t we articulated any successor aesthetics to cyberpunk?
vectorepisteme.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
squirted out some subbystacky musings on some autotheory type ish vectorepisteme.substack.com/p/see-you-in...
its ya boi
its ya boi
Wish this wasn’t my main social media site now it’s 3am and I really am inclined to autotheory-post about my queer disembodiment.
September 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Wish this wasn’t my main social media site now it’s 3am and I really am inclined to autotheory-post about my queer disembodiment.
today's the day!!!!! truly thrilled to have a chapter alongside the amazing folks in Autotheory and Its Others, out now from Punctum. Mine is on Roland Barthes punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
Autotheory and Its Others — punctum books
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July 22, 2026 at 2:37 PM
today's the day!!!!! truly thrilled to have a chapter alongside the amazing folks in Autotheory and Its Others, out now from Punctum. Mine is on Roland Barthes punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
nice to be cited... from the forthcoming Autotheory and its Others ( @punctumbooks.bsky.social )
May 16, 2026 at 8:40 AM
nice to be cited... from the forthcoming Autotheory and its Others ( @punctumbooks.bsky.social )
I am not “inventing a pseudo-political framework to explain why I had a shitty hookup“ it’s called autotheory and it’s very important
September 4, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I am not “inventing a pseudo-political framework to explain why I had a shitty hookup“ it’s called autotheory and it’s very important
Hello Bluesky! I’m new here and a book I’ve coedited is coming out in 2025 with @mitpress.bsky.social excited to welcome AUTOTHEORIES to the world 2/18/25 #autotheory preoder here mitpress.mit.edu/978026255229...
Autotheories
A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory.Au...
mitpress.mit.edu
December 26, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Hello Bluesky! I’m new here and a book I’ve coedited is coming out in 2025 with @mitpress.bsky.social excited to welcome AUTOTHEORIES to the world 2/18/25 #autotheory preoder here mitpress.mit.edu/978026255229...
uh oh she's diving back into the discourse™️ again! my new video essay is public!! it's all about autotheory, political science, and the cass review. I hope people like it!! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Link: youtu.be/x_mmM3dqATE
Link: youtu.be/x_mmM3dqATE
February 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
uh oh she's diving back into the discourse™️ again! my new video essay is public!! it's all about autotheory, political science, and the cass review. I hope people like it!! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Link: youtu.be/x_mmM3dqATE
Link: youtu.be/x_mmM3dqATE
Actually a big point of my (initiatory) cyberoccult autotheory research project is going to be reviewing a list of cultural works for understanding why I am Like This. It will be a fun exercise.
May 25, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Actually a big point of my (initiatory) cyberoccult autotheory research project is going to be reviewing a list of cultural works for understanding why I am Like This. It will be a fun exercise.
poets pissed me off so hard I turned into a memoirist. they got me writing lyric essays about my childhood. I'm doing autotheory and it's all their fault.
September 18, 2026 at 2:43 PM
poets pissed me off so hard I turned into a memoirist. they got me writing lyric essays about my childhood. I'm doing autotheory and it's all their fault.
It’s a great time to consider the methodological importance of autotheory as a mixed method in social science and culture/media studies
Social science Gastown has arrived
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
May 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
It’s a great time to consider the methodological importance of autotheory as a mixed method in social science and culture/media studies
para-academic who does amateur autotheory
June 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
para-academic who does amateur autotheory
I went from 7 footnotes to none, cut 3 paras, removed a poem, and made it choppy like a bad haircut. Enjoy the reading list. #NothingIsTooBanal #quickreads #photography #politics #contemporaryart #autotheory
January 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I went from 7 footnotes to none, cut 3 paras, removed a poem, and made it choppy like a bad haircut. Enjoy the reading list. #NothingIsTooBanal #quickreads #photography #politics #contemporaryart #autotheory
Very happy to have a piece in Autotheory and its Others, out now from @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
July 31, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Very happy to have a piece in Autotheory and its Others, out now from @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
I used to use Bluesky as a diary slash autotheory and you know what I loved it, bring that back.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I used to use Bluesky as a diary slash autotheory and you know what I loved it, bring that back.
my autotheory is that cars go vroom
June 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
my autotheory is that cars go vroom
"Theory wonks will love this rigorous & surprisingly playful survey of the genre of #autotheory."
The Millions recommends @alexbrostoff.bsky.social & Vilashini Cooppan's "Autotheories" in their winter 2025 preview!
The Millions recommends @alexbrostoff.bsky.social & Vilashini Cooppan's "Autotheories" in their winter 2025 preview!
themillions.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Theory wonks will love this rigorous & surprisingly playful survey of the genre of #autotheory."
The Millions recommends @alexbrostoff.bsky.social & Vilashini Cooppan's "Autotheories" in their winter 2025 preview!
The Millions recommends @alexbrostoff.bsky.social & Vilashini Cooppan's "Autotheories" in their winter 2025 preview!
Hiya! 👋🏻
I’m excited about starting over on Bluesky & reconnecting w pre-musk twitter friends.
I’m planning to post about autotheory, autofiction, po-mo rhetoric, neoliberalism, what I’m writing & reading, anti-Palestinian bigotry, the degenerate political & media classes, life writing, and more!
I’m excited about starting over on Bluesky & reconnecting w pre-musk twitter friends.
I’m planning to post about autotheory, autofiction, po-mo rhetoric, neoliberalism, what I’m writing & reading, anti-Palestinian bigotry, the degenerate political & media classes, life writing, and more!
November 15, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Hiya! 👋🏻
I’m excited about starting over on Bluesky & reconnecting w pre-musk twitter friends.
I’m planning to post about autotheory, autofiction, po-mo rhetoric, neoliberalism, what I’m writing & reading, anti-Palestinian bigotry, the degenerate political & media classes, life writing, and more!
I’m excited about starting over on Bluesky & reconnecting w pre-musk twitter friends.
I’m planning to post about autotheory, autofiction, po-mo rhetoric, neoliberalism, what I’m writing & reading, anti-Palestinian bigotry, the degenerate political & media classes, life writing, and more!
»Vielleicht sollte man es daher einfach als großen Seufzer eines vom akademischen Betrieb mit seinen bürokratischen Exzessen, Drittmittelpsychosen und Gremien-Gremlins entnervten Ordinarius verstehen« – es ist halt Autotheory eines deutschen Geisteswissenschaftsprofessors, sag ich schon immer
May 20, 2026 at 7:54 AM
»Vielleicht sollte man es daher einfach als großen Seufzer eines vom akademischen Betrieb mit seinen bürokratischen Exzessen, Drittmittelpsychosen und Gremien-Gremlins entnervten Ordinarius verstehen« – es ist halt Autotheory eines deutschen Geisteswissenschaftsprofessors, sag ich schon immer
We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Malcolm Bowie Prize is Lili Owen Rowlands for her chapter, ‘Begging to Differ: Autofiction, Autotheory, and Contemporary French Feminisms’, in Autotheories, eds. Brostoff & Cooppan (The MIT Press, 2025)
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direct.mit.edu/books/edited...
Begging to Differ: Autofiction, Autotheory, and Contemporary French Feminisms
direct.mit.edu
May 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Malcolm Bowie Prize is Lili Owen Rowlands for her chapter, ‘Begging to Differ: Autofiction, Autotheory, and Contemporary French Feminisms’, in Autotheories, eds. Brostoff & Cooppan (The MIT Press, 2025)
direct.mit.edu/books/edited...
direct.mit.edu/books/edited...
"The autotextual is a writing tactic that’s actually been around for a long time, under various names, but if you only get your information about book culture from publicity handouts, it seems that autofiction is a recent trend."
- McKenzie Wark 🖤
www.e-flux.com/journal/140/...
- McKenzie Wark 🖤
www.e-flux.com/journal/140/...
Critical (Auto) Theory - Journal #140
McKenzie Wark on autofiction and autotheory.
www.e-flux.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"The autotextual is a writing tactic that’s actually been around for a long time, under various names, but if you only get your information about book culture from publicity handouts, it seems that autofiction is a recent trend."
- McKenzie Wark 🖤
www.e-flux.com/journal/140/...
- McKenzie Wark 🖤
www.e-flux.com/journal/140/...