‘Autotheory steps in and intentionally contaminates all that theoretical purity with the messy, the wet, the dank of the hidden: of sex and of body.’
Arianna Zwartjes,
‘Under the Skin: An Exploration of Autotheory’, Assay Journal 6.1.
‘People go to the wilderness to meet themselves, their demons, and their gods; it is simultaneously framed as refuge, paradise, waste land, and hell; it is where you can be lead astray, into idolatry or death, or where you can discover a new subjectivity, where you may find the deepest wisdom or great ignorance’
Laura Feldt,
"1. Wilderness in Mythology and Religion", in Wilderness in Mythology and Religion: Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature, p.1
People go to
Autotheory
to meet themselves, their demons, and their gods;
intentionally contaminating all theoretical purity with the messy, the wet, the dank of the hidden.
It thus becomes refuge, paradise, waste land, and hell; it is where you can be lead astray, into idolatry or death; or where you can discover a new subjectivity,
re-discover sex and body,
where you may find the deepest wisdom (or great ignorance).