Hospicing Modernity: Parting with Harmful Ways of Living

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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 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.

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.Drawing on and moving beyond traditions of radical pedagogy, such as those inspired by Paulo Freire, the author 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 Arundhati Roy, Hospicing Modernity challenges our assumptions and dares to ask more of us, for the sake of us all. And right there—my fellow modern citizen—right there, in the author’s cosmological rudeness, lies her deepest medicine. If you are in Canada, you can purchase the book here (with proceedings going to our Indigenous partners in Brazil).

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 future for humanity is uncertain, but knowing who we really are and where we came from at least gives us a chance to build a kinder, more beautiful world. The claim at the heart of this book is that modernity is an all-embracing mindset that dominates the contemporary world.The dying can prepare for the end and those close to them can prepare for life without their loved one. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Proceeds from the sale of this book will be forwarded to Indigenous communities in Brazil who are part of our broader network. Asking the question ‘What if racism, colonialism, and all other forms of toxic and contagious divisions are preventable social diseases? 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.