Lauren Berlant

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

• TVTragic Vision

  7 / 10
• SISelf as Illusion

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  6 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  6 / 10

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

• Julia KristevaPILGRIM

  Abjection — the borders the self draws to remain itself.

• Luce IrigarayPILGRIM

  Her Speculum of the Other Woman makes sexual difference philosophical ground.

• Sara AhmedPILGRIM

  The Promise of Happiness — affect that wills us to align.

• Eve Kosofsky SedgwickPILGRIM

  Epistemology of the Closet — paranoid and reparative reading.

• Susan SontagPILGRIM

  Against Interpretation — the erotics of art beats hermeneutics.

• Roland BarthesPILGRIM

  With the death of the author, the text's pleasure lives in the reader.

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

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.