Description
In Outgrowing Modernity, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira distills the most transformative insights from her work with the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective. Expanding on themes of shared responsibility and relational accountability, she explores how discernment, compassion, and embodied awareness can guide us toward deeper transformation. With a sense of urgency, Machado invites readers to radically rewire their thinking, relationships, and actions in the face of overlapping global crises.
Outgrowing Modernity serves as a companion and follow-up to the groundbreaking < em>Hospicing Modernity, a powerful critique of capitalism, industrialization, and colonial systems. In this latest work, Machado offers rich context and insight into the multitude of social and ecological crises shaping our world. While it builds on ideas from her earlier book, Outgrowing Modernity, it stands on its own: it is accessible and relevant even to readers new to her work.
With bold clarity, Machado invites readers to reimagine how we think, feel, and act in ways that support collective healing and transformation. The exercises and prompts in the book are thought-provoking and intentionally crafted to transform our relationship with ourselves, one another, and the world. Machado offers piercing questions confronting painful and uncomfortable truths, yet her approach invites reflection without despair. Instead, readers are guided toward new ways of engaging with our human and more-than-human kin, grounded in humility, connection, and imagination.
