Material forces distinguish autotheory from prior feminist and queer life-writing traditions

Evidence

Significant material forces we have studied in Immediacy—changes in academic labor, constriction of the publishing marketplace, the algorithmicization of culture, industrial constructions of I-capital from the policies of neoliberalism to the ideologies of “wellness”—markedly differentiate autotheory from the autobiographical writings in feminist, queer, and nonwhite traditions with which it has affinities. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 261

Categorization

• XREF: This is the key move the reader wants to interrogate — Kornbluh declines the ‘endogenous culmination’ narrative (standpoint feminism, Deleuzean immanence, Nietzsche) in favor of a structural-economic one, which is exactly where her debt to Jameson should be judged. — connects to: the MOC “The False Compass: How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self”