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Outgrowing Modernity - Vanessa Machado De Oliveira & Keri Facer

By Vanessa Machado De Oliveira & Keri Facer

Release Date: 2025-08-12

Genre: Social Science

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The inevitable is coming fast. We know it in our bonesā€”and itā€™s past time to face it.

The highly anticipated follow-up to Hospicing Modernity: how we activate responsibility, nurture care, and grow up in the face of collapseā€”includes reflections, exercises, and prompts

Climate collapse, social crisis, the decline of modernity: colonialism, capitalism, and our full-faced denial have ushered in an urgent new era. Hospicing Modernity asked us to grow up, step up, and show up for our communities and the living Earth. Outgrowing Modernity helps us make sense of where weā€™re goingā€”and deepen whatā€™s possibleā€”in a time of endings.

Vanessa Machado De Oliveira helps us face the logics and workings of modernity, bringing us to clear-eyed terms with its expiration. She explores the impacts of colonialism as neurocolonization: an oppressive function of modernity that rewires how we think, act, imagine, and adapt. These impacts are wide-ranging and run deep: they cut us off from our natural ways of building community and seeking pleasure. They choke our ability to cope with trauma and embrace complexity. And they trap us in a state of artificial comfort and denial that keeps us from collectively growing upā€”even when our existence demands it.

This book invites you to interrupt 5 lies that neurocolonization instills in usā€”beliefs (and behaviors) that have condition us to think weā€™re owed the following, regardless of others or the planet:

Moral and epistemic self-righteous authorityUnrestricted, unaccountable autonomyArbitrating truth, law, and common senseAffirming one's virtues, innocence, and purityExploitative appropriation and accumulation of various forms of capital
In moving away from these ingrained worldviews, we can choose instead to develop 4 capacities necessary to ourā€”and Earthā€™sā€”survival: sobriety, maturity, discernment, and responsibility.

Machado De Oliveira moves beyond critique into a praxis of strategic disinvestment: one that invites us to recognize what no longer serves us and reinvest in nurturing structures and lifeways that restore our knowledge in the value of life for lifeā€™s sake.

Outgrowing Modernity - Vanessa Machado De Oliveira & Keri Facer

By Vanessa Machado De Oliveira & Keri Facer

Release Date: 2025-08-12

Genre: Social Science

(0 ratings)
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The inevitable is coming fast. We know it in our bonesā€”and itā€™s past time to face it.

The highly anticipated follow-up to Hospicing Modernity: how we activate responsibility, nurture care, and grow up in the face of collapseā€”includes reflections, exercises, and prompts

Climate collapse, social crisis, the decline of modernity: colonialism, capitalism, and our full-faced denial have ushered in an urgent new era. Hospicing Modernity asked us to grow up, step up, and show up for our communities and the living Earth. Outgrowing Modernity helps us make sense of where weā€™re goingā€”and deepen whatā€™s possibleā€”in a time of endings.

Vanessa Machado De Oliveira helps us face the logics and workings of modernity, bringing us to clear-eyed terms with its expiration. She explores the impacts of colonialism as neurocolonization: an oppressive function of modernity that rewires how we think, act, imagine, and adapt. These impacts are wide-ranging and run deep: they cut us off from our natural ways of building community and seeking pleasure. They choke our ability to cope with trauma and embrace complexity. And they trap us in a state of artificial comfort and denial that keeps us from collectively growing upā€”even when our existence demands it.

This book invites you to interrupt 5 lies that neurocolonization instills in usā€”beliefs (and behaviors) that have condition us to think weā€™re owed the following, regardless of others or the planet:

Moral and epistemic self-righteous authorityUnrestricted, unaccountable autonomyArbitrating truth, law, and common senseAffirming one's virtues, innocence, and purityExploitative appropriation and accumulation of various forms of capital
In moving away from these ingrained worldviews, we can choose instead to develop 4 capacities necessary to ourā€”and Earthā€™sā€”survival: sobriety, maturity, discernment, and responsibility.

Machado De Oliveira moves beyond critique into a praxis of strategic disinvestment: one that invites us to recognize what no longer serves us and reinvest in nurturing structures and lifeways that restore our knowledge in the value of life for lifeā€™s sake.

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