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Is the Auto Theoretical Turn Coming Back to Vogue?
After Megan Nelson's 2015 the Argonauts are you familiar with that text? No it kind of blew the critical theoretical world off its rails in a way. She uses a combination of hype theory with an autobiographical premise she talks about her own relationship with her lover and about all kinds of very personal things. So there's this kind of a mixing of that highly theoretical and very deeply autobiographical book people just love, he says. And so those two texts together kind of created this whole new movement, whole new way of theorizing that is about combining theory and autobiography or personal anecdotes at least.