Others, especially those defending indigenous ways of life, find themselves in a constant, high-intensity struggle for survival. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behaviour patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of. It is thinking that polluting a river is okay because the human concept of profit is more important than the life of a waterway.

Hospicing Modernity is a troubling gift in a big cultural moment, and I’m delighted to have encountered it.

The author puts it beautifully but bluntly: she lovingly does not care about ‘what’ you think: your delusions of ends and means and your sense of self-importance are part of the problem. Written in a tone that directly addresses the reader through stories, metaphors, and rich imagery, this book resonates with the vitality of life itself, taking us on a transformative educational journey that inspires us to take seriously our profound interconnection to all others—past, present, and future—with whom we share this world. Proceeds from the sale of this book will be forwarded to Indigenous communities in Brazil who are part of our broader network. It is the story of separation, of how humans have cut themselves off from the rest of life on planet Earth by believing that we can do precisely as we wish without repercussions. Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance.

Half-serious warning: don't read it if you are seeking clear-cut answers, easy solutions or self-validation. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The dying can prepare for the end and those close to them can prepare for life without their loved one. By allowing modernity to expire gracefully within us, without judgement for its manifest failings, we halt its programme of violence and separation and open the space to reclaim a deeper understanding of what it is to be human.Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. It is the Slave Triangle, it is using Agent Orange in Vietnam, and it is the lies of the oil companies to defer action on climate change. Navigating her rigorous work is an exercise in defamiliarizing modernity as the air we breathe, the site of our persistent illnesses, and the earthly thing that can give way to something else. For fans of adrienne maree brown, Sherri Mitchell, and Charles Eisenstein, Hospicing Modernity challenges our assumptions and dares to ask more of us, for the sake of us all. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

It does not suggest that we become Buddhists or socialists or Scientologists or indeed any type of “ism” to solve our problems. The book “ Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism” was published in September 2021. For fans of adrienne maree brown, Sherri Mitchell, and Arundhati Roy, Hospicing Modernity challenges our assumptions and dares to ask more of us, for the sake of us all. It examines a range of urgent philosophical issues about modernity and its deep contradictions, and the ways in which its inevitable demise might be steered toward more morally and culturally productive futures.But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability? Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. It’s a book for the future, yet written to meet us where we are at right now as individuals living with trauma and facing ethical dilemmas about what it means to take meaningful actions under conditions of complexity. This book is not simply a text, it demands reflection and interaction, providing tools and stories that help each of us understand our relationship with modernity. Hospicing Modernity invites its reader to dare and educate themselves by undergoing a process of self-unmaking.

We certainly need to escape its clutches and discover a kinder, more connected way of living in the world. Important and powerful, Hospicing Modernity diligently tracks a complex word—modernity—through the bewildering forest of our times. This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers.

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