Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of. 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.

She explains how our habits, behaviors, and belief systems hold us back…and why it’s time now to gradually disinvest. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. We certainly need to escape its clutches and discover a kinder, more connected way of living in the world. In a suite of stories, informed in part by Indigenous thinking, Machado de Oliveira ruptures certainty with the void that many Indigenous peoples have recognized for millennia, pushing the reader over the edge into mocking darkness.

Others, especially those defending indigenous ways of life, find themselves in a constant, high-intensity struggle for survival.

There are clues to how we find the paths that lead to the unknown world ahead, beyond the end of the world as we know it. 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. This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability? Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.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.

This book is most certainly for you, and although the ideas may be new, they will resonate with the deep disquiet within you. She explains how our habits, behaviours, and belief systems hold us back…and why it’s time now to gradually disinvest. It does not suggest that we become Buddhists or socialists or Scientologists or indeed any type of “ism” to solve our problems. 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.This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. 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. 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. 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. More chilling still is that modernity is not a philosophical abstract that we can dip into or opt-out of.