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. It is a book of acute vision and insight, and taps into that most underused faculty we so desperately need to attend to ‘the end of the world as we know it’: the imagination. A destabilised climate, pollution, inequality and endless war are all testimony to the failings of modernity. If what the author is saying resonates, if you are ready to do this difficult work, get over yourself and read it, for the sake of the people around you, and of the planet.

This is an outstanding book—truly original and profoundly perceptive in its contents and arguments, and multimodal in its pedagogic approach.Beyond a mere critique of modernity, this is a book written for us as people who struggle with the everyday manifestations of modern power. 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.

It does not matter if you agree or not with the premise that modernity is dying and in need of ‘hospicing. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). 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.Important and powerful, Hospicing Modernity diligently tracks a complex word—modernity—through the bewildering forest of our times. It is a book that is not only thought provoking but also helpful in guiding genuinely worthwhile discussions. We certainly need to escape its clutches and discover a kinder, more connected way of living in the world.

Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. The book is about the necessary expansion of our capacity for dealing with difficult and painful things, to sit in complexity and uncertainty, to show up to difficult conversations and to exist differently and, put frankly, to grow up. Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. She explains how our habits, behaviors, and belief systems hold us back…and why it’s time now to gradually disinvest.The book “ Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism” was published in September 2021.

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. Modernity, she claims, is not about being contemporary or cutting edge, nor is it about technology or science. 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.For Indigenous communities, the teachings that are necessary for engagement with sacred plants are very rigorous and require a lot of discipline. It reaches deep inside us, filtering our view of the world, deciding what is possible and what is not, severing links with ancient wisdom and the diversity of human experience.