oh gosh wonderful question.
[before getting into it here's a quick proviso that "outsider art" as a thing has a v complicated history involving a lot of fetishism of neurodivergence and such and i have Many Feelings about it but i use it out of convenience in stuff like this as someone who feels a very strong connection to both the idea of "outsider art" and to a lot of the people given that label.]
three-pronged answer:
- Writing by outsider artists can be really wonderful. Reading My Taoist Vision of Art when I was a bit younger was influential. Unfortunately a lot of discourses about outsider artists are about them, not by them, so it can sometimes be hard to seek out this kind of stuff. In general I find reading things like artistic manifestos and commentaries, especially by niche or obscure artists, works for this sort of vibe as well.
- As far as what might be considered formal Philosophy, this is part of why I tend to be attracted towards mystic philosophy and post-structuralist philosophy. Both tend to represent a more freeform exploration of often idiosyncratic ideas, less concerned with developing Answers and Specific Models and more with exploring thoughts and mindsets and the way we think about the world and so on. Derrida, Buber, Retallack, Deleuze, and late Wittgenstein are examples.
- Collaging thoughts is very important to me philosophically. It's part of the reason why I made @allmylittlewords. So much of my personal philosophical development is less about specific texts or allegiances (though I have specific thinkers and books I love, of course) and more about finding little pieces of text and thought in the strangest places (books, BBS archives, satirical cartoons, games, blogs, etc) and finding those resonating in a specific way, thus stitching them into my own quilt of meaning. In this way the way I live my life and particularly my specific form of semi-spiritual autistic information-seeking itself scratches this itch.
