{"product_id":"outgrowing-modernity-isbn-9798889842507","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 \u003ci\u003eHospicing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e: 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.\"Vanessa Machado de Oliveira is one of the wisest minds on this planet.... She frames a roadmap, at once prophetic and intricate, toward a generative future for our species, in kinship with every form of life and intelligence—including a truly original proposal of relationship with technology and AI. This book is a moral, intellectual, and spiritual masterpiece.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Krista Tippett, Peabody Award–winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and founder of The On Being Project and podcast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A civilizational coming-of-age book. Fragile egos beware.... A companion and a guide for those seeking to re-embed into the ecological matrix, and indeed, the living cosmos itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Alnoor Ladha, coauthor of \u003ci\u003ePost Capitalist Philanthropy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If the status quo was as intelligent and as responsive as its popular portrayals, it should designate this book contraband—which is why I most heartily recommend it.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Báyò Akómoláfé, PhD, professor at Macalester College and author of \u003ci\u003eThese Wilds Beyond Our Fences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book doesn't just challenge—it transforms. It is a deeply wise and essential guide for times of global upheaval.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Steffi Bednarek, director of the Centre for Climate Psychology and editor of \u003ci\u003eClimate, Psychology, and Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a book for those that long to step into service, those done with throwing up, throwing a tantrum, or throwing in the towel. Come play with us!\"\u003cbr\u003e—Amit Paul, host of the \u003ci\u003eWorld of Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e podcast, entrepreneur, and performer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Machado de Oliveira is going to shake you up with this book.... This is the beginning of a new pedagogical project for dealing with the challenge of living in the wake of modernity's devastation.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Crain Soudien, PhD, professor and former deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Cape Town\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A must-read for anyone grappling with the intersections of climate change, systemic injustice, and the human spirit.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Frank J. Miles, pandisciplinary visual artist, artistic philosopher, and social sculptor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The challenging reflection this book encourages makes it a must-read for all who love and fear for the earth's future. Convince your book club to read it!\"\u003cbr\u003e—Rieky Stuart, Climate Legacy and Seniors for Climate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOutgrowing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e posits a fundamental demand in the form of a question. 'Can we change?' And, even in that, gently places choice amid inevitability.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Wendi S. Williams, PhD, psychologist, educator, advocate, and thought leader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The chapter on AI is particularly a breath of fresh air.... AI is aptly described as a new paradigm where the relationship between natural and artificial intelligence is augmented into a new form of wide-boundary intelligence so highly needed for the challenges of our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Hossein Rezai, PhD, global design director at Ramboll and Milan Research Lab\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[This book] offers the support we need so much as we weave sobriety, maturity, discernment, and responsibility into the intricacies of this unfolding dance—life.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Kumi Naidoo and Louisa Zondo, directors of the Riky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Artivism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a long stewed, deeply metabolized translation of Vanessa's inherently swirling perception of the realm of symbiotic living processes—into language, and beyond language.... I can feel the long work here, and I am so grateful.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Nora Bateson, filmmaker, artist, founder of the Bateson Institute, and author of \u003ci\u003eCombining\u003c\/i\u003eVanessa Machado de Oliveira is the former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria and former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the University of British Columbia. She is a Brazilian\/Canadian educator, artist, and researcher who has spent over three decades tracing the architecture and aftershocks of modernity: its promises, violences, and delusions of separation. Her work invites a reckoning with the ontological assumptions driving systemic harm and extinction-level thinking. She has published more than 100 academic papers and is the author of \u003ci\u003eHospicing Modernity \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOutgrowing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, co-author of \u003ci\u003eBurnout From Humans: A Little Book About AI That Is Not About AI\u003c\/i\u003e, and a co-weaver of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures arts and research collective.","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233459941605,"sku":"NP9798889842507","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798889842507.jpg?v=1767734376","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/outgrowing-modernity-isbn-9798889842507","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}