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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.

Beyond a mere critique of modernity, this is a book written for us as people who struggle with the everyday manifestations of modern power. 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. It does not suggest that we become Buddhists or socialists or Scientologists or indeed any type of “ism” to solve our problems.

More chilling still is that modernity is not a philosophical abstract that we can dip into or opt-out of. This is not an ordinary book and it may not be for everyone: it is a thought experiment that skillfully and creatively creates conditions for us to shed our arrogance and to get our proverbial shit together.

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.The book “ Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism” was published in September 2021. This is an outstanding book—truly original and profoundly perceptive in its contents and arguments, and multimodal in its pedagogic approach. 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. But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability? 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.

KYLE WHYTE, PhD, George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan “Asking the question ‘What if racism, colonialism, and all other forms of toxic and contagious divisions are preventable social diseases? This is not strictly an academic book, but an educational experiment full of dancing stories, metaphors, allegories, creative maps, and exercises that ask you to sit at the limits of our modern desires and imagination. I invite you to read this book as a ritual that can prepare us to do the work that is necessary to interrupt the harm humanity is inflicting on itself and on the planet. This book is most certainly for you, and although the ideas may be new, they will resonate with the deep disquiet within you. Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance.

It is the state humans adopt when they believe they are separate from nature and not reliant on each other. And right there—my fellow modern citizen—right there, in the author’s cosmological rudeness, lies her deepest medicine. 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.

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