Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

Innocence: Positioning oneself outside complicity in violence, often because of one’s stated commitment to be against violence. This

Tool 2: Wording and Worlding the World

Whatever happens “then” depends more on the quality of relationships in the “now” than on the accuracy or appeal of images of the future that one projects as a way forward.

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 at

Tool 1: Mastery and Depth Education

However, critiques from this space tend to disarticulate and prioritize one or sometimes two dimensions of social injustice (e.g., capitalist dispossession, racism, cis-hetero-patriarchy, ableism, imposition of the liberal democratic nation-state form) rather than understanding their interconnections.

A Single Story of “Forward”

However, when these pleasures and comforts may be affecting the very possibility of the continuity of life on the planet, we need to consider our responsibility toward future generations of human and nonhuman lives.

mastery education is contrasted with “depth education.” This is defined as a mode of engagement designed to prompt us to dig deeper and to relate wider, disinvest in harmful desires,3 activate accountability and responsibility before will4 (not as an intellectual choice or a transactional calculation), and become open to being taught by the world i