Modernity is dying. That may be even clearer now than back in 2021 when Hospicing Modernity was first published. Vanessa Machado de Oliveira is an educator and academic, and she credits her family’s mixed-heritage, German and Indigenous, as having provided valuable insight into how modernity’s promise of emancipation has been built on the backs of colonised people, and why it is ultimately doomed.

“We are living”, Machado tells us, “off expired or expiring stories.” One dominant story is that modernity has civilised us through its doctrine of rationalism and human exceptionalism, ...

 

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