{"product_id":"outgrowing-modernity","title":"Outgrowing Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe inevitable is coming fast. We know it in our bones—and it’s past time to face it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The highly anticipated follow-up to Hospicing Modernity: how we activate responsibility, nurture care, and grow up in the face of collapse—includes reflections, exercises, and prompts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClimate collapse, social crisis, the decline of modernity: colonialism, capitalism, and our full-faced denial have ushered in an urgent new era. \u003ci\u003eHospicing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e asked us to grow up, step up, and show up for our communities and the living Earth. \u003ci\u003eOutgrowing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e helps us make sense of where we’re going—and deepen what’s possible—in a time of endings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVanessa 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 \u003ci\u003eneurocolonization\u003c\/i\u003e: 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 up—even when our existence demands it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book invites you to interrupt 5 lies that neurocolonization instills in us—beliefs (and behaviors) that have condition us to think we’re \u003ci\u003eowed\u003c\/i\u003e the following, regardless of others or the planet:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoral and epistemic \u003cb\u003eself-righteous authority\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnrestricted, \u003cb\u003eunaccountable autonomy\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eArbitrating truth, law, and common sense\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAffirming one''s virtues\u003c\/b\u003e, innocence, and purity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eExploitative appropriation and accumulation\u003c\/b\u003e of various forms of capital\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn moving away from these ingrained worldviews, we can choose instead to develop 4 capacities necessary to our—and Earth’s—survival: \u003cb\u003esobriety\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ematurity\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ediscernment\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eresponsibility\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMachado 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 life’s sake.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57396867989886,"sku":"NW9798889842507","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9798889842507.jpg?v=1778607245","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/outgrowing-modernity","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}