Autotheory defines itself by negating theory’s mediating abstractions.

Evidence

Autotheory’s skin-to-skin contact negates the mediating diversions of theory: its wild ideas unmoored from viscera, its transcendental striving riven from immanence, its tarrying with the negative and unlived experience. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 289

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the core contrasting features of mediation that immediacy negates: unmoored ideas, transcendental striving, tarrying with the negative.