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Abstract
[First paragraph]
This response to Reconstruction's Summer 2002 edition, Volume 2, Number 3, "autobiogeography: considering space and identity," particularly to the papers of Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Davin Heckman, Subhash Jaireth, Deirdre Heddon and Sally Munt, is an attempt to establish provisionally whether a discourse that sets critical theory, autobiographical practice and a "poetics" of space in performative motion orbiting each other can add anything to the critical discussion of "autobiogeography." Part of my motivation is an antipathy toward criticism that can be applied to everything but itself. Given that hybridity will be an important part of a critical discourse about space and self, which I want to develop and encourage here, arguing its case will, in itself, necessarily involve some hybridisation. I hope then that the converging deployments here of reminiscence, of a range of references that spans the Daleks, seaside promenade and the entanglement of quantum particles -- engaging my own variegated history of theorising in and out of the academy, of "creative" artifice in structuring and writing and of a more familiar academic style will be taken in the spirit that they are offered; in the service of a theorising that is in motion about its transient subject matters: self and site.
Repository Citation
Smith, Phil. "Dread, Route and Time: An Autobiographical Walking of Everything Else." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 3, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1–27. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol3/iss1/4
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