Minor Autopoesis: learning a lesson from Doctor Who. Autopoesis is a jargon term created from two Greek words to mean ‘self-making from within’. The Greek words are, as cited in Wikipedia, the words, αὐτo- (auto-) ‘self’, and ποίησις (poiesis) ‘creation, production’). For a time,  in art and literary criticism (in the 1990s) there was a … More Minor Autopoesis: learning a lesson from ‘Doctor Who’.