Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
the term modernity/coloniality was created to underscore the fact that violence and unsustainability are necessary for modernity to exist.
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness Dani d’Emilia, Vanessa Andreotti, and the GTDF Collective
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
Recognition: Seeking affirmation of one’s righteousness, redemption, and exceptionalism (often to justify one’s merit and the enjoyment of privileges). Often, recognition is sought by curating (and trying to control) one’s public image and attempting to ensure that one is seen and heard as being and doing “good.”
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
2 Mapping Horizons of Possibility
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
the omnipresence and value attached to the yellow corncobs (as an effect of universalism), curtailing our imagination and preventing us from even imagining the existence of other possibilities.
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
The basic premise of the methodology is that if we cannot hold space for the complexities within us, there is no chance for us to hold space for the complexities around us.8
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
Emotions are usually perceived to be abstract concepts rather than physiological manifestations. In an attempt to interrupt this tendency, we prefer to use the term affect to emphasize the fact that these physical sensations happen through and in between our bodies, and that their manifestations are much more complex than the meanings we usually
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Disillusionment is a condition for clearing the way for other forms of existence to be able to emerge without being suffocated by our modern desires, projections, and expectations.
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Certainty: Desiring (and demanding) fixed, totalizing knowledge, simple and guaranteed answers to complex problems, and predeterminable outcomes before taking action.