Engage in Hospicing Modernity
Join Nori and Avery for a 7-month book club / experiential hybrid practice of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. It’s a book that serves as a foundational resource for people who long to respond to the overlapping crises created by capitalist modernity with more awareness, maturity, and playfulness.
It can be a highly uncomfortable read, but by gathering and incorporating somatic practices, we hope to expand our collective capacity for discomfort and together allow ourselves to become disillusioned with the extractive, violent systems that affect us all.
We may tweak this schedule as needs emerge *and* here’s what we are thinking now:
Fri Jan 19th: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Preface, Warm Up, Prep Work 1Fri Feb 16th: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Prep Work 2 & 3Fri Mar 15th: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Chapters 1 & 2Fri Apr 12th: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Chapters 3 & 4Fri May 10th: 6:30- 8:00 pm
Chapters 5 & 6Fri Jun 14th: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Chapters 7 & 8Fri Jul 12th: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Chapters 9 & 10
Thank you for considering and if you have any further questions, please reach out to us
Reviews of 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.”
— 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?’, Hospicing Modernity invites its reader to dare and educate themselves by undergoing a process of self-unmaking.
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.”
— DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA, PhD, professor at the University of British Columbia Social Justice Institute and author of Toward a Global Idea of Race and Unpayable Debt
