ABSTRACT
Weak theory resists the imposition of categories of analysis and explanation developed in other contexts. Kathleen Stewart seems to be suggesting that Weak Theory loses itself in its curiosities, and it is willing to do so, rather than constantly exercising its vigilance for threats to it own undoing. Weak Theory, says Stewart stands in contrast to "strong theory" which "defends itself against the puncturing of its dream of a perfect parallelism between the analytic subject, her concept, and the world—a kind of razed earth for academic conversation". Perhaps as an orientation to scholarly inquiry and knowledge formation, Weak Theory is an approach that is both concerned with how it brings the object of study into visibility and yet not at all. To approach the world from the place of Weak theory seems to be akin to the approach that many artists take in and towards the production of their work.
