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Die Kunsthistorikerin, Künstlerin und Kuratorin Lauren Fournier liefert in ihrer Monografie Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Wirting and Criticism eine umfassende Analyse autobiografischer und/oder autofiktionaler Medienpraktiken. Im Zentrum von Fourniers Auseinandersetzung steht die Frage wie diese Praktiken mit Theorie und Erkenntnisproduktion verschaltet sind. Zur Klärung gräbt sich die Autorin durch die Theorie- und Kunstgeschichte und untermauert das feministische Argument, dass die descartesche Trennung von Körper und Geist, Verstand und Gefühl immer schon ein Trugschluss war. Fournier betont, dass sowohl die big patriarchs der modernen Theoriegeschichte – Marx, Nietzsche, Freud – als auch ihre Vorgänger* wie Rousseau oder Kant eigene Erfahrungen in ihre Werke verstrickten (S. 36-37). Es waren jedoch vor allem Frauen* und BIPoC-Personen, die diese Praxis sichtbar machten, benannten und strategisch einsetzten. Ihnen wurde die Möglichkeit, eine vermeintlich objektive und ent-körperlichte Perspektive einzunehmen, aufgrund sexistischer, rassistischer und klassistischer Zuschreibungen abgesprochen. Ziel feministischer kultureller Praxis war und ist es daher, die Zuschreibung als ver-körperlicht – das heißt sinnlich-sexuell – strategisch einzusetzen und umzudeuten. Hier argumentiert Fournier im Sinne der Autorin Chris Kraus, deren Buch I Love Dick für sie eine Hauptreferenz darstellt. Kraus interpretierte das Teilen von Persönlichem in "weiblicher" Kunst als eine ästhetisch-kreative Strategie um: "If women have failed to make 'universal' art because we’re trapped within the 'personal' why not universalize the 'personal' and make it the subject of our art?" (Kraus 2015, S. 195). Feministische Kunst und Theorie will somit immer auch den "göttlichen Trick" offenlegen, der die bürgerlich-männliche, weiße und heterosexuelle Subjektposition als transzendentale Position inszeniert (vgl. Haraway 1995). Feministische kulturelle Praktiken sind für Fournier daher immer schon Autotheorien. Zeitlich liegt der Fokus der Monografie auf Kunst und Literatur seit den 1970er Jahren, obwohl Fournier auch auf Arbeiten von Aktivistinnen* und Schriftstellerinnen* wie Mary Wollstonecraft oder Sojourner Truth oder Künstlerinnen* wie Zora Nele Hurston oder Claude Cahun eingeht. Es waren jedoch vor allem die postmodernen Theorien als auch die Performance- und Videokunst, denen die Autotheorie ihren heutigen Stellenwert verdankt: "In the 1970s, the feminist art movement in America foregrounded women’s bodies as active and conceptual, while feminist poets and philosophers working in France sought ways to express the female body and subjectivity through writing" (S. 11). In den an die Einleitung anschließenden Analysekapiteln werden daher ausführlich Arbeiten von Künstlerinnen* und Aktivistinnen* behandelt. Sehr überzeugend werden beispielsweise die autotheoretischen Arbeiten der US-amerikanischen Künstlerin Adrienne Piper beschrieben. Piper setzte sich in Werken wie Food for the Spirit (1971) mit der Kant’schen Ästhetik und ihrer Rezeption durch den zu ihrer Zeit renommierten Kunsthistoriker Adam Greenberg auseinander. Während der Formalist Greenberg die "Interessenslosigkeit" der Kunst als Qualitätsmerkmal hochhielt, legt Piper in ihren autodokumentarischen Körperperformances, die Widersprüche der Kant’schen Philosophie offen: "[Piper] reveals to be one of Kant’s best readers: she understands the paradox of Kant’s philosophical system – predicated on sensorial perspective, and thus on the body, while at the same time failing to consider the body in its gendered, racialized and abled aspects" (S. 97). Pipers autodokumentarisch-theoretische Arbeiten nehmen so Einfluss auf die Theorierezeption ihrer Zeit. Autotheoretische Arbeiten zeichnen sich jedoch nicht nur durch eine kritische Rezeption von bestehenden Theorien aus. Sie sind auch maßgeblich an der Entwicklung von "neuem" situiertem Wissen beteiligt. Fournier verweist auf die lange Tradition dieser Praxis: Bereits in den Arbeiten von bell hooks und Audre Lorde werden Alltagserfahrungen für theoretische Überlegungen produktiv. Intersektionale Theorien basieren somit immer auch auf einer Theoretisierung von Erfahrung. Am Beispiel der Latinx Künstlerin @gotshakira bespricht Fournier dieses Phänomen im Kontext der zeitgenössischen Internetkultur. @gotshakira produziert "confessional femme memes", die feministische Theoriediskurse um Sexismus und Rassismus aus dem akademischen Raum lösen und in Memes verwandeln. Die virale Wirkung und der institutionskritische Charakter entstehen vor allem auch über die Zurückweisung korrekter englischer Grammatik, welche die Künstlerin von der Meme-Kultur übernimmt (S. 129). In ihren Analysen liefert Fournier so eine ausführliche Genealogie der Autotheorie und ihrer Einflüsse auf akademische, künstlerische und literarische Diskurse. Zudem arbeitet die Autorin auch die Möglichkeit heraus, Theorie durch autotheroetische Zugänge zu de-kolonialisieren: "While this might seem a utopic promise, one that might at first appear overly optimistic, I think the range of works emerging over the past half-century that engage autotheory in subversive and liberatory ways points to the possible radical, and ethical, capacities for autotheory as an inclusive mode with deep feminist roots. […] Autotheory can serve as a way of critiquing and transforming existing colonial discourse of philosophy and theory through such practices as autothereotical citation, […] through forms of community building and radically empathic, cross-experimental collaborations that considerately and curiously engage the personal alongside the critical" (S. 270). So wurde der intersektionale Feminismus über autotheoretische Zugänge entwickelt. Zugleich verweist Fournier auch auf einige "Risiken" der Autotheorie: "With the term autotheory, though, comes the risk of a potentially excessive methodological individualism that places primacy on the autos or self in a way that could bring the questionable logics of late postmodernism full circle (My truth is truth and your truth is your truth) or the logics of those most militant forms of intersectional thinking (I am the most marginalized by the center-margin logic of the given context and so I will be the only one to speak)" (S. 272). Erst eine kritisch selbst-reflexive Praktik, die kollektiv agiert, verhindert Solipismus. Fournier verweist hier auf die Tatsache, dass autotheoretische Arbeiten nicht unmittelbar transgressiv wirken und hält fest, dass Autotheorie, entgegen der Meinung einiger Kritiker*innen, keine "simple" und "oberflächliche" Praxis ist, die aus Narzissmus und mangelnder Selbstdistanz hervorgeht. Im Gegenteil, Fourniers Arbeit unterstützt die medienkulturwissenschaftliche These, dass erst durch distanzierende literarische und/oder künstlerische mediale Praktiken eine Selbstdistanz möglich wird, die in kritisch transgressiven Haltungen und Theorien münden kann – aber nicht muss. Während Fournier eine umfassende und überzeugende Analyse künstlerischer und literarischen Praktiken liefert, fällt ihr die Einordnung populärkultureller bzw. massenkultureller Phänomen allerdings teilweise schwer. In einem letzten Kapitel versucht sie die #metoo-Bewegung in ihre Analysen miteinzubeziehen und verstellt sich, meiner Meinung nach, die Sicht durch eine subtil zwischen den Zeilen aufscheinende Unterscheidung von Kunst und Massenkultur. Denn es sind für die Autorin vor allem Soziale Medien die "dekontextualisieren" und "verkürzen" (S. 171). Obwohl Fournier gleichzeitig die Bedeutung der #metoo-Bewegung betont, ist es auffällig, dass sie der Autotheorie gerade dann mit Skepsis begegnet, wenn sie aus einem Massenphänomen hervorgeht. Interessanter wäre es an dieser Stelle vielleicht auf die Unterschiede zwischen Autotheorie als eine postmoderne Theorieform beziehungsweise Praxis und der #metoo-Bewegung, die versucht den Diskursen einer positivistischen Rechtsprechung gerecht zu werden, hinzuweisen. Dieser kulturkritische Ton im letzten Kapitel schmälert allerdings nicht den akademischen Wert von Fourniers Monografie. Sie lieferte eine detaillierte und längst überfällige Genealogie und Analyse von Autotheorien, die noch dazu durch einen persönlichen und selbstkritischen Ton besticht. Mit Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Wirting and Criticism ist es der Autorin gelungen, die rezente Hinwendung zum Privaten theoretisch zu fundieren und das kritisch feministische und dekoloniale Potential von autobiografischen Texten, Performances und/oder Videos herauszuarbeiten. Literatur: Haraway, Donna: "Situiertes Wissen. Die Wissenschaftsfrage im Feminismus und das Privileg einer partialen Perspektive". In: Die Neuerfindung der Natur. Primaten, Cyborgs und Frauen. Hg. v. dies., Frankfurt am Main: Campus 1995, S. 73-97. Kraus, Chris: I Love Dick. London: Tuskar Rock, 2015., [rezens.tfm], Nr. 2023/1

Review of: Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing and Criticism, Lauren FournierCambridge, MA and London: MIT Press (2021), 320 pp., h/bk,ISBN: 978-0-26204-556-8, US $35.00

While practice-based master’s degrees are transformed into preparatory research proposals, right wing governments across Europe find enemies in artistic projects investigating a local or transnational colonial legacy, or fluid gender identities. In this context, concepts that define not only artwork but also practice are essential for directing the debate away from parliamentary binaries and toward the actual activities undertaken by artists. In this context, autotheory is an important concep...

In this text, I reflect on the relationship between terroir and territory as part of a critical settler practice of sourdough bread-baking in the prairies of Treaty 4 lands, Saskatchewan. I propose that a framework of terroir-as-territory is one way of conceiving of and practising decolonialization within land-based food systems. Writing through conversation, reflection, and provocation, I consider the place of fermentation practices—specifically wheat fermentation—in settler and Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan, where fermentation (the chemical changes brought on by microbes) embodies simultaneously the processes of preservation and transformation. As I write, I draw from my ongoing curatorial research into contemporary art and fermentation as well as my long-standing interest in food security and food justice, pivoting, in this short textual performance, into food writing and criticism as activism.

This article considers American writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus’s genre-bending, parodic book I Love Dick (1997) as a way to deconstruct divisions that persist between the female “hysteric” and th...

This article proposes the possibilities of fermentation, or microbial transformation, as a material practice and speculative metaphor through which to approach today’s transnational feminisms. The author approaches this from the perspective of their multiyear curatorial experiment Fermenting Feminism, looking to multidisciplinary practices across the arts that bring together fermentation and feminism in dynamic ways. The article outlines ten ways in which fermentation is a ripe framework for approaching transinclusive, antiracist, countercolonial feminisms. As the author takes up these points, drawing from scholarly and artistic references alongside lived experience, they theorize the ways fermentation taps into the fizzy currents within critical and creative feminist practices. With its explosive, multisensory, and multispecies resonances fermentation becomes a provocation for contemporary transnational feminisms. Is feminism, with its etymological roots in the feminine, something worth preserving? In what ways might it be preserved, and in what ways might it be transformed? The author proposes that fermentation is a generative metaphor, a material practice, and a microbiological process through which feminisms might be reenergized—through symbiotic cultures of feminisms, fermentation prompts fizzy change with the simultaneity of preservation and transformation, futurity and decay.

Autotheory—the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography—as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. In the 2010s, the term “autotheory” began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier provides a long-awaited account of autotheory, situating it as a mode of contemporary, post-1960s artistic practice that is indebted to feminist writing, art, and activism. Investigating a series of works by writers and artists including Chris Kraus and Adrian Piper, she considers the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of autotheory. Fournier argues that the autotheoretical turn signals the tenuousness of illusory separations between art and life, theory and practice, work and the self—divisions long blurred by feminist artists and scholars. Autotheory challenges dominant approaches to philosophizing and theorizing while enabling new ways for artists and writers to reflect on their lives. She argues that Kraus's 1997 I Love Dick marked the emergence of a newly performative, post-memoir “I”; recasts Piper's 1971 performance work Food for the Spirit as autotheory; considers autotheory as critique; examines practices of citation in autotheoretical work, including Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts; and looks at the aesthetics and ethics of disclosure and exposure, exploring the nuanced feminist politics around autotheoretical practices and such movements as #MeToo. Fournier formulates autotheory as a reflexive movement, connecting thinking, making art, living, and theorizing.

In this article, I bring together three auto-ethnographic vignettes, written between 2011 and 2014, that converge around issues of public space, feminist cultural production, technology, and physical exposure in Vancouver and Berlin. Drawing from performance studies frameworks, I position both the rituals of everyday life (like ordering an Americano from a coffeeshop in Vancouver) and moments of explicitly making an artwork (like collaborating on a performance for Vancouver’s LIVE 2011 biennale) as performative. What began as an attempt to read a Vancouver coffeeshop through a fairly straightforward, auto-ethnographic, de Certeauian framework during my Masters research evolved into a scene of sexual harassment and assault, and this article is both a trace of, and a testament to, the challenges that young women-identifying artists and scholars continue to come up against when they do their work in public.

Difficulty stopping unwanted or inappropriate actions (i.e., inhibitory control) is implicated in antisocial behaviors, which are common in people high in psychopathic traits. Recent research indicates that, for those with antisocial personality, inhibitory control is impaired under negative emotional contexts; however, it is unclear whether this impairment extends to persons with psychopathic traits and to impairments under positive emotional contexts. Identifying some of these distinctions can point to therapeutics that target negative emotion specifically or emotion dysregulation broadly. We sought to identify unique relationships between distinct facets of psychopathy and inhibitory control in the context of positive, negative, and neutral stimuli. Using a community sample (N=117), event-related potentials were recorded during an emotional-linguistic Go/No-Go task. Results indicated distinct cognition-emotion relationships for each psychopathy facet. Higher interpersonal facet scores related to reciprocal interference between cognition and emotion. Higher callous affect facet scores related to reduced inhibitory and emotional processing, except when stimuli were most engaging (emotional No-Go trials). Higher erratic lifestyle facet scores related to increased effort required to process both emotion and inhibition cues. Finally, higher antisocial facet scores related to poorer behavioral inhibition overall. This research challenges theoretical accounts of psychopathy focused on specific deficits in negative emotion, such as fearlessness, while offering some support for theories related to attentional dysfunction. Results also highlight the importance of facet-level theorizing, as results varied by facet. This study may inform efforts to reduce disinhibited behaviors, particularly in emotional contexts, among those high in certain psychopathic traits.

In autotheory as contemporary feminist practice, artists, writers, philosophers, activists, curators, and critics use the autobiographical, first person, and related practices of self-imaging (Jone...

Introduction Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is prevalent after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and may diminish recovery when left untreated. Despite the demonstrated importance of treating OSA following TBI, assessment for OSA during or soon after inpatient rehabilitation for TBI is limited. Little is known about barriers to implementing OSA screening and early diagnosis during inpatient rehabilitation thus hindering the translation of evidence-based OSA assessment procedures into clinical practice and potentially delaying necessary OSA treatment. The current analysis explored facilitators and barriers to implementing OSA screening tools in an inpatient rehabilitation setting from the perspectives of end user stakeholders. Methods Patients, families, industry, clinical providers and administrators participated in a two-day meeting following completion of a diagnostic clinical trial of OSA screening and diagnostic tools during inpatient rehabilitation. Stakeholders were provided with open ended questions generated by study investigators and given the opportunity to respond on paper or a “graffiti wall” (i.e., white board). Example questions include “What are the greatest needs of the healthcare system related to sleep apnea and TBI?” and “What are the key things we need to consider to move results into real-world practice?” Qualitative content analyses using a rapid matrix approach were conducted from stakeholder feedback obtained during the two-day meeting, which included a guided review of emerging OSA research and discussion of potential implementation barriers of OSA assessment during inpatient rehabilitation. Results Improved screening and treatment practices for OSA were the greatest needs identified. To meet these needs, stakeholders identified the importance of improving patient, family, and staff understanding of OSA (e.g., health literacy) and other sleep disorders through education; inpatient rehabilitation access to resources (technology; sleep providers); and reimbursement for additional inpatient procedures. Conclusion Although treatment of OSA is crucial for recovery during inpatient rehabilitation following TBI, barriers to earlier recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of OSA exists across several different domains, including education, resources, and funding policies. Findings support future implementation efforts to translate evidence-based care into practice to improve patient outcomes. Support (if any) PCORI-NCT03033901

Research Objectives To examine sociodemographic and psychological factors associated with history of arrests and felony incarceration among Veterans and Service Members (V/SM) with and without history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Design Survey; Multicenter cohort study. Setting Eight Veteran Affairs and Department of Defense medical hospitals. Participants V/SM completed a baseline assessment for Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium (N=1,555). Participants were predominantly male (87%), white (72%), and 40 years old (SD=9.71). Most (83%) reported a history of at least one mTBI). Interventions Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures Self-report measure of lifetime arrest/felony incarceration history. Results Three groups were composed based on level of involvement with the criminal justice system: 1.) No history of arrests or incarcerations (65%), 2.) A lifetime history of arrest but no felony incarceration (32%), and 3.) A lifetime history of felony incarceration (3%). Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis H tests revealed statistically significant differences between the groups in demographic factors including the incarcerated group having younger age, greater percentage of men, lower education, and greater percentage of never being married, followed by the arrest group and then the no arrest group (all p Conclusions The correlates of legal involvement among V/SM span demographic and psychological dimensions. Some correlates are modifiable, including social support, PTSD symptoms, and alcohol consumption. Addressing these modifiable risk factors is critical to lower the risk of future criminal justice involvement. Author(s) Disclosures This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command and from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium under Award No. W81XWH-13-2-0095. The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, 820 Chandler Street, Fort Detrick MD 21702-5014 is the awarding and administering acquisition office. All authors denied any conflicts of interests.

Objective Examine factors associated with history of arrests and felony incarceration among Veterans and Service Members (V/SM) with combat exposure. Method Participants were V/SM who completed a baseline assessment for the multicenter Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium study (N = 1555). Most were male (87%), white (72%), with a mean age of 40 years (SD = 9.71). The majority (83%) reported a history of ≥1 mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), with thirty-five present of those experiencing 3+ mTBIs. Results Three groups were composed based on self-reported level of involvement with the criminal justice system: 1.) No history of arrests or incarcerations (65%), 2.) A lifetime history of arrest but no felony incarceration (32%), and 3.) A lifetime history of felony incarceration (3%). Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis H tests revealed statistically significant differences between the groups in demographic factors including the incarcerated group having younger age, greater percentage of men, lower education, and greater percentage of never being married, followed by the arrest group and then the no arrest group (all p Conclusions Correlates of legal involvement among V/SM span demographic and psychological dimensions. Some correlates are modifiable, including social support, PTSD symptoms, and alcohol consumption. Addressing these modifiable risk factors is critical to lower the risk of future criminal justice involvement.

Individuals with eating disorders experience high anxiety when eating, which may contribute to the high relapse rates seen in the eating disorders. However, it is unknown if specific cognitions associated with such anxiety (e.g., fears of gaining weight) may lead to engagement in eating disorder behaviors (e.g., weighing oneself). Participants (N = 66) recently treated at a residential eating disorder facility and diagnosed with an eating disorder (primarily anorexia nervosa; n = 40; 60.6%) utilized a mobile application to answer questions about mealtime cognitions, anxiety, and eating disorder behaviors four times a day for one week. Hierarchical linear models using cross-lag analyses identified that there were quasi-causal (and sometimes reciprocal) within-person relationships between specific eating disorder cognitions and subsequent eating disorder behaviors. These cognitions predicted higher anxiety during the next meal and eating disorder pathology at one-month follow-up. Interventions personalized to target these specific cognitions in real time might reduce eating disorder relapse.

Early in 2008, Tony Truesdale, President of the Vitamin Shoppe, was preparing for a meeting with the company's investment bankers. In particular, he was wrestling with supply chain issues that were becoming increasingly pronounced in light of the company's aggressive growth plan. Truesdale recognized that it was nearly impossible to effectively manage the company's large and fragmented supply base, resulting in higher than necessary costs and lower than desired performance. The company also relied too heavily on one supplier for a significant amount of the company's volume. Truesdale recognized that it was nearly impossible to effectively manage the company's large and fragmented supply base, resulting in higher than necessary costs and lower than desired performance. The company also relied too heavily on one supplier for a significant amount of the company's volume.Further, in the company's single distribution center, 95 percent of the available storage capacity was utilized throughout most of 2007; well above what was considered optimal. The lack of space was driving excessive product handling and increasing operating expenses. The company's inbound and outbound transportation strategies also contributed to inefficiencies and unnecessary costs. Operating efficiencies could be achieved if all transportation needs were brought together under one strategic umbrella. Truesdale was certain that in order to reach the company's growth targets and maintain its competitive advantage, addressing these supply chain issues was critical. Students are asked to describe the specific issues affecting supply chain performance and recommend approaches to solving the problems