Boaventura de Sousa Santos
b. 1940
“Epistemologies of the South — knowledge born of struggle.”
The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.
- TETrust in Experience7 / 10
- CECommunal Embeddedness7 / 10
- POPractical Orientation7 / 10
- TVTragic Vision6 / 10
The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.
- Glen CoulthardFORGE
Red Skin, White Masks — Indigenous resurgence as anti-colonial.
- Enrique DusselFORGE
Philosophy of Liberation — the colonial Other as ethical first.
- Aníbal QuijanoFORGE
Coloniality of power — race as the deepest axis of modern domination.
- Édouard GlissantFORGE
Poetics of Relation — opacity and the archipelagic right to be unknown.
- Harriet MartineauFORGE
Illustrations of Political Economy — sociology as moral observation.
- Joseph PriestleyFORGE
Necessity, materialism, oxygen — Unitarian radical chemist.
Short exercises in the same tradition as Boaventura de Sousa Santos's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.
Three doors lead onward.
- 01 · QUIZThe InheritorFind your archetype — discover whether you'd argue with Boaventura de Sousa Santos or alongside them.CONTINUE ▶
- 02 · COMPAREBoaventura de Sousa Santos vs Glen CoulthardOn Mull's map Glen Coulthard sits closest. See where they agree and where they part.CONTINUE ▶
- 03 · DAILYToday's SparOne philosopher, one topic, five minutes. A new one drops every day.CONTINUE ▶