{"id":3509013,"date":"2025-02-20T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3509013"},"modified":"2025-04-09T19:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:31:18","slug":"acceptance-and-agency-at-the-end-of-modernity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-02-20\/acceptance-and-agency-at-the-end-of-modernity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptance and Agency at the End of Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf the world is made of problems to be solved, then to admit you are out of solutions is to reach the end of the world.\u201d<\/em>

– Dougald Hine, At Work In the Ruins<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>

Anyone reading this right now is likely inhabiting the world of high-energy modernity \u2013 enjoying the benefits, and increasingly feeling the consequences, of a fossil-fueled frenzy of mechanization, industrialization, and exploitation of people and nature. But modernity is more than just the highly complex physical, social, and economic fabric of our lives. It is a story, as Vanessa Andreotti<\/strong><\/a> and Dougald Hine<\/strong><\/a> argue in their seminal books, Hospicing Modernity<\/em> and At Work in the Ruins<\/em> \u2013 a story of inevitable growth and progress so deeply embedded in the consciousness of our culture and institutions that is not conscious at all. For much of humanity and the more-than-human world, that story has already been a tragedy. But now both the story and the real-world manifestations of modernity may be expiring.<\/p>

In this online event, Vanessa Andreotti and Dougald Hine held a rich and honest discussion to explore the promise and consequences of modernity, the implications of its decline, and how we \u2013 individually and collectively \u2013 can hospice what is dying and give care to what may emerge.<\/p>

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