Hospicing Modernity Quotes

“I had to find a way to quickly deactivate these projections and to show that the demand for simple formulas and quick fixes”
― Vanessa Machado De Oliveira, Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

“This book was written for those involved in low-intensity (also low-risk and low-stakes) struggles. This term refers to those who have benefited the most and still enjoy the protections that modernity offers”
― Vanessa Machado De Oliveira, Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

“Profile A This profile encompasses people enchanted by modernity and heavily invested in its continuity—in avoiding modernity’s death at all costs. Those who align with this profile want to prove that modernity is the best thing that has ever happened to humanity and that there are no better alternatives”
― Vanessa Machado De Oliveira, Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

“Learning to offer palliative care to modernity dying within and around us is not something that modernity itself can teach us to do. In other words”
― Vanessa Machado De Oliveira, Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism