Hospicing Modernity with Vanessa De Oliveira Andreotti

Driven by expansion, colonialism and resource extraction, and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. Join us to discuss Vanessa’s book Hospicing Modernity which offers frameworks that speak to modernity’s infrastructure and its fractures. Vanessa is the interim director of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia, and the incoming Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, Canada. Chaired by Habiba Nabatu.

[@timwmartin17]

This is the most compelling conversation I’ve witnessed in a very long time. Thank you for sharing and caring so deeply.

[@thegreenloafer]

Oh wow, such a wide-ranging, rich conversation. I appreciated the inclusion of the personal - the clear understanding Vanessa has of her own lineage, her position in that line of ancestors and the both the gifts and challenges it has brought her. I love the invitation to work on what we have inherited from our ancestors, discern what needs to be interrupted/worked through/composed, and what needs to be cherished/developed further and passed down to the future ones. The use of the verb 'hospicing' too. We're not here to add more violence to the world and 'kill off' modernity but hospice it so it has a 'good' death with integrity and we can learn the lessons from its life. And the need for generosity, patience and compassion in mixed group encounters...but not coddling of fragility. And, well, so much more. 🥰 What a delight. Thank you.

[@deathbyyoutube]

Vanessa has done incredible work, it's impossible to overstate its importance and urgency. And humour! Many of my conversations link to her materials available online and I feel that they will connect more and more as we move forward as individuals, communities, societies and species.

[@bradismyfriend]

I really appreciate hearing this talk. currently I'm in a book study group on "Hospicing Modernity" but I'm really struggling to read it (well it must be said it's not a book to be "read" it's more a deep medicine to be taken in and that is difficult work) Hearing her present the ideas is really helpful. I think even a couple minutes at a time is very rich.

[@stephprichard1677]

Thanks so much for sharing this conversation. I would love to hear what the comments were in the chat around the blind spots from the British context? To offer some thoughts, I would say they include (and not limited to) the inability to name and talk about the atrocities of the British Empire (rooted in denial, guilt, shame, ignorance), the historical and ongoing race and class inequalities, the ongoing perpetuation and complicity/entitlement of modernity/coloniality. I hope that we cultivate the capacity for response/ability - to sit with the trouble - and that we learn how to grieve with, care for, make amends, grow up 🙏

[@timwmartin17]

Would be nice to start a chat channel space for community learning and continued sharing dialogue, hmm, who could host such a healing space?

[@helenaduecker2526]

Thank you for making this accessible! This is the perspective and wisdom we need - I feel changed by this talk!

[@lavonageorge7274]

Thank you. With sincere appreciation

[@evelineBELGIE]

Where could we find the resources or links that Vanessa speaks to 53 mins in please?

[@HollyBynoe]

What a profoundly transformative, generative and insightful way to think about world-making....thank you Vanessa and Habiba.

[@SerendipityInTheSky]

Bravo! So nice to hear someone else say “I don’t have hope, I have faith”. I have goosebumps. We are not masters of nature, she/they can sort themselves out. How that ending emerges and how much suffering arises from it is up to us.

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[@jasonlongsworth4036]

Cool! Very typically inbred academic, but still really interesting. Waiting to hear how someone can relate to/gain something from this if not invested in academic inbreeding. How do we let ✨modernity✨ die with grace? /genuine

[@Alithiadelafleche]

Curious how you perceive this to be ‘typical academic inbreeding’ when it seems to me quite embodied and indigenous wisdom in a framework that the modern mind can understand. Perhaps we just have different perspectives but this doesn’t feel at all like overt academia.