Autofiction’s ‘auto’ fixation stems from the industrial restructuring of cultural labor

Evidence

If autofiction strikes us as exceptional, this is surely because it functions as the conspicuous self-justifying wing of contemporary literary production’s unprecedented preoccupation with the “auto,” across a variety of sole-proprietor genres ensuing from the industrial restructuring of publishing, journalism, and academic labor. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 122

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘sole-proprietor genres’ point connects to her later chapter on the subjective turn of writing; also resonates with solo-preneur gig-economy analyses of contemporary authorship. — connects to: The work’s autonomy is itself a dialectical, historically variable phenomenon — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 646
• QUESTION: What exactly is the ‘industrial restructuring of publishing, journalism, and academic labor’ she’s gesturing at? Worth chasing the supporting evidence, since the causal claim’s strength hinges on it.