Hospicing Modernity – Vanessa Machado De Oliveira

Interrupting our (unconscious) enjoyment of these harmful desires is another journey altogether, and it is fraught with relapses, sidesteps, and dead ends. It requires long, sustained practice. In the GTDF collective we say that this is not a sprint, but a marathon requiring discipline and training.

It is also very easy to think that you are already doing it, when in fact you are still trapped in the illusions and denials of modernity. For example, observe your response to the idea that modernity is within all of us, but spread unevenly. If your thought after reading this sentence was something like, “Because I am an artist, activist, have been engaged with alternatives, or have a spiritual practice, I have already let go of modernity,” I would invite you to think again, because such responses can be very indicative of modernity trying to hide.

Those who have deeply wrestled with the modernity within themselves do not usually underestimate it. These few people would be very skeptical of their own responses, and they would be also asking questions like, “How is modernity hiding in my unconscious right now? How is it conditioning how I feel, relate, and respond to the world in ways that I am not aware of?

How is it at work in my initial response to the first sentence?” They would not be looking for an excuse or an easy way out; instead they would try to be present to the fantasies and difficult teachings of modernity hiding in their answers. This chapter is about how modernity is internalized through our socializations in modern institutions, and how it becomes faster than thought.

The stories in this chapter invite you to take a look at how modernity may have restricted your field of experience, especially through formal education. Who Knows Better? When my daughter was six years old, we moved from England, where we had been for the past four years, to Aotearoa/New Zealand. As soon as we arrived in the country, I went to register her at the local school.

Modernity Is Faster than Thought Prep Work 2: Why Read (Or Not) This Book Different Readers, Different Responses What to Expect Interrupting Self-Infantilization Prep Work 3: The Most Important Chapter Tool 1: Mastery and Depth Education Tool 2: Wording and Worlding the World Tool 3: The Bus within Us Tool 4: Layering Existence and Experience Tool 5: Low- and High-Intensity Struggles Tool 6: Generative Disillusionment and Exiled Capacities Tool 7: Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness Part 2: Hospicing Modernity 1: A Single Story of “Forward” Global North–South Relations Global Leaders and Global Followers Helping Others to “Catch Up” Self-Serving Altruism 2: Mapping Horizons of Possibility Soft-, Radical-, and Beyond-Reform Orientations of Change Dying Olive Trees 3: The House of Modernity The Story of the House Modernity Built The Promises of the House Collective Cultural Dis-ease 4: Faster than Thought Who Knows Better?

Facing Humanity A Hummingbird Teacher Boxhead 5: Surrendering Arrogance Hierarchies of Knowledges, Cultures, and Bodies From the Ivory Tower to the Supermarket No Ethical Crisis Hierarchies between Disciplines The Case for Academia with/out Arrogance 6: Getting to Zero Brutal Kindness Towards Braiding Beyond Representation, Recognition, and Redistribution 7: Living and Dying Well A Life-Path Cree Story The Four Mountains Traveling Reflections 8: Returning Home Severance: The Accident Threshold: Depression The Long Return Home: The Body as the Land 9: There Is No Away Toilet Protocols Relational Economies Toilet Teachings Metabolic Literacies 10: As Things Fall Apart The Eye of the Storm Walking on a Tightrope Composting Shit The Gifts of Failure Rescue Boat Next Steps Endnotes Preface: My Grandmothers’ Gifts Part 1: Warm-up/Prep Work Warm-up: Into the Future Prep Work 1: Who the Heck Is Modernity?

Prep Work 3: The Most Important Chapter Part 2: Hospicing Modernity Chapter 1: A Single Story of “Forward” Chapter 2: Mapping Horizons of Possibility Chapter 3: The House of Modernity Chapter 4: Faster than Thought Chapter 5: Surrendering Arrogance Chapter 6: Getting to Zero Chapter 8: Returning Home Chapter 9: There Is No Away Chapter 10: As Things Fall Apart Index Acknowledgments About the Author About North Atlantic Books OceanofPDF.com Hospicing Modernity Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism Vanessa Machado de Oliveira OceanofPDF.com Praise for Hospicing Modernity “Beyond a mere critique of modernity, this is a book written for us as people who struggle with the everyday manifestations of modern power.

Clear, creative, and cogent, the work offers cutting-edge philosophy at the same time that it furnishes usable guidance for how to cope with the coming perils of colonialism and capitalism. 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.”

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