ABSTRACT
I always thought of first person narratives (or even edited volumes) in social theory as self-mythology or sentimentality. But the routinized abstraction of social theory has now become so far removed from the experience of being that even historicization is inadequate to the task of recouping anything real from the current ritualism of discourse. Putting oneself back into theory is a way to reclaim what has otherwise become an alienated attempt to hold on to meaning by surplus discourse production. Bringing together exemplary voices from a new generation in critical theory is a way to announce and mobilize a new shared political voice.
