Autotheory as discourse cannot sustain argument because experience is undisputable.

Evidence

Jockeying for self-assured aura, immediacy theory nullifies concept formation. It neither makes arguments nor countenances counterarguments, for who among theorists can dispute another theorist’s experience? Instead of advancing ideas, we are enjoined to pen our own disclosure (and, with luck, score a big trade publisher’s advance). — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 293

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the claim that positions grounded in experience are genuinely unrebuttable, or merely that the genre declines rebuttal — worth interrogating in the Antitheory fight.