Anna Tsing

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• WPWill to Power

  8 / 10
• TVTragic Vision

  7 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Rosa LuxemburgFORGE

  Spontaneity of the masses; socialism or barbarism.

• MarcuseFORGE

  One-dimensional man. The great refusal. Eros against repression.

• Chen DuxiuFORGE

  Founder of Chinese Communism — New Youth's call to science and democracy.

• Catharine MacKinnonFORGE

  Toward a Feminist Theory of the State — sexual hierarchy as the deepest politics.

• Linda Martín AlcoffFORGE

  Visible Identities — race, gender, and the politics of social epistemology.

• Cheshire CalhounFORGE

  Feminist philosophy — moral failure, hope, and what's worth doing.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Anna Tsing's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Premortem →

  Imagine the failure of your plan in vivid detail before you start.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.

• Switch sides →

  Argue both sides of a debate, alternating, until you no longer know which side you started on.