Theorizing offers a provisional home to those without one in their lived family

Evidence

How I envied Dorothy her journey in The Wizard of Oz, that she could travel to her worst fears and nightmares only to find at the end that “there is no place like home.” … I found a place where I could imagine possible futures, a place where life could be lived differently. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 131

Categorization

• CANDY: The motif of intellectual work as a surrogate homeland echoes in exile/migration literatures — could connect to reading on belonging and displacement.
• XREF: connects to: For hooks, theorizing voiced early as a search for home in a rejecting family; Theory is assumed abstract the more it drags away from the personal; Counter-speculations offer no destination but enable collective dwelling with uncertainty — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 348 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• For hooks, theorizing voiced early as a search for home in a rejecting family #exemplifies (0.95)
• Autotheory posits lived experience as theory’s proper basis. #corroborates (0.82) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 288
• Counter-speculations offer no destination but enable collective dwelling with uncertainty #corroborates (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 348
• Theory is assumed abstract the more it drags away from the personal #complicates (0.78)
• Massive socialization at home arrests consciousness and blocks autonomy’s hidden roots #qualifies (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 851
• Essentialist-sounding definitions can be adopted provisionally without belief in essence #corroborates (0.72) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 453