{"id":3511836,"date":"2025-04-03T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?page_id=3511836"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:59:13","slug":"featured-topic-acceptance-and-agency","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/featured-topic-acceptance-and-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptance and Agency at the End of Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a195d4e2\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n<div id=\"wrb-featured-hero-block_b4b9386f11df5093f0751cfccb36fa5c\" class=\"wrb-featured-hero\">\r\n\t<div class=\"image\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"789\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Carhenge\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image.jpg 789w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/>\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<div class=\"text\">\r\n\t\t<div><p>Modernity is a story of inevitable growth and progress deeply embedded in the consciousness of our culture and institutions. 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>\n<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<style>\r\n.wrb-featured-hero {\r\n\tdisplay: flex;\r\n\tbackground: #e6f2fa;\r\n\tflex-wrap: wrap;\r\n}\r\n\r\n.wrb-featured-hero .image {\r\n\twidth: 100%;\r\n}\r\n\r\n.wrb-featured-hero .image img {\r\n\tdisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n\r\n.wrb-featured-hero .text {\r\n\tdisplay: flex;\r\n\twidth: 100%;\r\n\tpadding: 50px;\r\n\talign-items: center;\r\n}\r\n\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {\r\n\t.wrb-featured-hero .image {\r\n\t\twidth: 60%;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\t.wrb-featured-hero .text {\r\n\t\twidth: 40%;\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-04a54a8e\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3cd5d471\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-06dd3dcf\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-db5cb743\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-db5cb743\">\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-feb2560d gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-02-20\/acceptance-and-agency-at-the-end-of-modernity-2\/\">Acceptance and Agency at the End of Modernity<\/a><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-87245627\"><span class=\"gb-icon\"><svg width=\"28\" height=\"28\" viewBox=\"0 0 28 28\" fill=\"none\"> <path d=\"M19 4H5C3.89543 4 3 4.89543 3 6V20C3 21.1046 3.89543 22 5 22H19C20.1046 22 21 21.1046 21 20V6C21 4.89543 20.1046 4 19 4Z\" stroke=\"#333\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" fill=\"none\"><\/path> <path d=\"M16 2V6\" stroke=\"#333\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" fill=\"none\"><\/path> <path d=\"M8 2V6\" stroke=\"#333\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" fill=\"none\"><\/path> <path d=\"M3 10H21\" stroke=\"#333\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" fill=\"none\"><\/path> <\/svg><\/span><span class=\"gb-headline-text\"><strong>PAST EVENT: February 13, 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">In this online event, <strong>Vanessa Andreotti<\/strong> and <strong>Dougald Hine <\/strong>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>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-8c5d6f76\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-8c5d6f76\">\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-19564f23\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-02-20\/acceptance-and-agency-at-the-end-of-modernity-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"789\" height=\"526\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-19564f23\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image.jpg\" alt=\"Carhenge\" title=\"A+A-End-Modernity_featured-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image.jpg 789w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<a class=\"gb-button gb-button-39e080f0 gb-button-text res-btn-yellow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-02-20\/acceptance-and-agency-at-the-end-of-modernity-2\/\">Watch the Recording<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-dd534db4\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<!-- cache: true --->\t<div id=\"wrb-feed-block_779be116b45d4b2f7c83671e1fc5246e\" class=\"wrb-feed\" data-cache=\"false\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-sidebyside\">\r\n\t<div class=\"row\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"image col-12 col-sm-6\"><a class=\"zoom-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-03-21\/the-evolution-of-modernity\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AA-End-Modernity_featured-image-640x405.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feed size-feed wp-post-image\" alt=\"end of modernity graphic\" \/><\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"text col-12 col-sm-6\">\r\n\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-03-21\/the-evolution-of-modernity\/\">The Evolution of Modernity<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"author-byline font-sh2\"><a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/richard-heinberg\/\">Richard Heinberg<\/a>, Resilience.org<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"font-b2\"><p>The colonizing rules, which seemed to work so well for a while, at least for some, have propelled us into the evolutionary cul-de-sac called modernity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"font-sh2 text-gray\">March 21, 2025<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-sidebyside\">\r\n\t<div class=\"row\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"image col-12 col-sm-6\"><a class=\"zoom-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-03-19\/crazy-town-episode-100-tom-murphy-modernity\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CT-E100-Res-Feature-640x405.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feed size-feed wp-post-image\" alt=\"Episode 100\" \/><\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"text col-12 col-sm-6\">\r\n\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-03-19\/crazy-town-episode-100-tom-murphy-modernity\/\">Crazy Town 100. A Temporary Techno Stunt: Tom Murphy on Falling out of Love with Modernity<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"author-byline font-sh2\"><a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/asher-miller\/\">Asher Miller<\/a>, <a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/rob-dietz\/\">Rob Dietz<\/a>, <a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/jason-bradford\/\">Jason Bradford<\/a>, Resilience.org<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"font-b2\"><p>Recovering technology booster Tom Murphy visits Crazy Town to discuss his journey from shooting lasers at the moon, to trying to &#8220;solve&#8221; the energy predicament, to falling out of love with modernity itself. <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"font-sh2 text-gray\">March 19, 2025<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-sidebyside\">\r\n\t<div class=\"row\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"image col-12 col-sm-6\"><a class=\"zoom-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-02-14\/dougald-hine-reimagining-the-cultural-narrative-art-and-storytelling-for-systemic-change\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TGS163_DougaldHine-640x405.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feed size-feed wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dougald Hine\" \/><\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"text col-12 col-sm-6\">\r\n\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-02-14\/dougald-hine-reimagining-the-cultural-narrative-art-and-storytelling-for-systemic-change\/\">Dougald Hine: \u201cReimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"author-byline font-sh2\"><a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/nate-hagens\/\">Nate Hagens<\/a>, <a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatsimplification.com\/episode\/163-dougald-hine\">The Great Simplification<\/a><\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"font-b2\"><p>Today, Nate is joined by storyteller and social thinker, Dougald Hine, to explore the importance of narratives in shaping our understanding of the world and how they can help us navigate the complexities of life, especially in the face of ecological crises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"font-sh2 text-gray\">February 14, 2025<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-sidebyside\">\r\n\t<div class=\"row\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"image col-12 col-sm-6\"><a class=\"zoom-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2024-01-19\/hospicing-modernity-not-a-new-idea\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/scott-umstattd-wxruheY5nG8-unsplash-640x405.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feed size-feed wp-post-image\" alt=\"doing the dishes\" \/><\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"text col-12 col-sm-6\">\r\n\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2024-01-19\/hospicing-modernity-not-a-new-idea\/\">Hospicing Modernity: Not a new idea<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"author-byline font-sh2\"><a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/eliza-daley\/\">Eliza Daley<\/a>, <a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/by-my-solitary-hearth.net\/2024\/01\/18\/the-daily-18-january-2024\/\">By my solitary hearth<\/a><\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"font-b2\"><p>We first need to listen to the world, listen to the voices we\u2019ve suppressed, listen to reality. As Machado says, \u201cDo the dishes\u201d, meaning tend to and take care of the physical bodies enmeshed and entangled with modernity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"font-sh2 text-gray\">January 19, 2024<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-sidebyside\">\r\n\t<div class=\"row\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"image col-12 col-sm-6\"><a class=\"zoom-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2023-02-14\/at-work-in-the-ruins-review\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Post-and-Grant-Avenue-Look-640x405.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feed size-feed wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"text col-12 col-sm-6\">\r\n\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2023-02-14\/at-work-in-the-ruins-review\/\">At Work in the Ruins: Review<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"author-byline font-sh2\"><a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/andrew-curry\/\">Andrew Curry<\/a>, <a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com\/2023\/02\/14\/end-times-dougald-hine-climate-modernity\/\">thenextwave<\/a><\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"font-b2\"><p>And what I take from this is that we don\u2019t get to choose whether or not there is an ending. We only get to choose what kind of ending we have, and therefore what we have left to build from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"font-sh2 text-gray\">February 14, 2023<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 col-md-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-sidebyside\">\r\n\t<div class=\"row\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"image col-12 col-sm-6\"><a class=\"zoom-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2020-11-17\/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-23-vanessa-andreotti\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thumbnail-Resilience-FINAL.VA_.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feed size-feed wp-post-image\" alt=\"Vanessa Andreotti\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thumbnail-Resilience-FINAL.VA_.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thumbnail-Resilience-FINAL.VA_-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thumbnail-Resilience-FINAL.VA_-304x200.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thumbnail-Resilience-FINAL.VA_-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thumbnail-Resilience-FINAL.VA_-294x194.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Thumbnail-Resilience-FINAL.VA_-384x253.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"text col-12 col-sm-6\">\r\n\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2020-11-17\/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-23-vanessa-andreotti\/\">What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 23 Vanessa Andreotti<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"author-byline font-sh2\"><a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/vicki-robin\/\">Vicki Robin<\/a>, <a class=\"subtle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/resilience-author\/vanessa-andreotti\/\">Vanessa Andreotti<\/a>, Resilience.org<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"font-b2\"><p>Vanessa is one of the founding members of the Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and \u201cIn Earth\u2019s CARE\u201d, an international network of Indigenous communities located mostly in Canada and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa provides her insight on What Could Possibly Go Right?<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"font-sh2 text-gray\">November 17, 2020<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e08e56d3\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-9f5af100 gb-headline-text\"><strong>Call for Submissions<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">Have you written or recorded something that addresses the loss of wild nature and should be included in this list? <a href=\"mailto:media@postcarbon.org\">Please send us your submissions<\/a>. If it\u2019s a good fit we\u2019ll include your work in this series.<br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a759b199\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><em>Header image: Carhenge image via Adobe Stock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Submissions Have you written or recorded something that addresses the loss of wild nature and should be included in this list? Please send us your submissions. If it\u2019s a good fit we\u2019ll include your work in this series. 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