Hospicing Modernity: Parting with Harmful Ways of Living

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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 does not matter if you agree or not with the premise that modernity is dying and in need of ‘hospicing. This is an outstanding book—truly original and profoundly perceptive in its contents and arguments, and multimodal in its pedagogic approach. 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 is fitting that the author is someone who genuinely has a foot outside of the tent of modernity and can bring a unique perspective to its study. She explains how our habits, behaviors, and belief systems hold us back…and why it’s time now to gradually disinvest. Drawing on and moving beyond traditions of radical pedagogy, such as those inspired by Paulo Freire, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira has created a powerful tool for uncovering, undoing, and recovering from the deadly ways in which modernity also lives and dies as humans experience it subjectively.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. 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. Proceeds from the sale of this book will be forwarded to Indigenous communities in Brazil who are part of our broader network. It is thinking that polluting a river is okay because the human concept of profit is more important than the life of a waterway.

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Others, especially those defending indigenous ways of life, find themselves in a constant, high-intensity struggle for survival. She asks us to imagine a future that is free of the cruel constraints of modernity and then pass through modernity’s death to embrace that future. Machado de Oliveira breaks down archetypes of cognitive dissonance--the do-gooder who does "good enough," then retreats to business as usual; the incognito capitalist who, at first glance, may seem like a radical change-maker--and asks us to dig deeper and exist differently.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Machado de Oliveira has established that we need to do the former and, with the telling of fragility, she promotes a new strength through mystery.Machado de Oliveira breaks down archetypes of cognitive dissonance—the do-gooder who does “good enough,” then retreats to business as usual; the incognito capitalist who, at first glance, may seem like a radical change-maker—and asks us to dig deeper and exist differently. A hospice is a place of kindness, not only for those about to die but also for those who will survive them. The book “ Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism” was published in September 2021.