A note about today’s free 90-minute live conversation beginning at 1 p.m EDT. — MCM
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There may still be time to register for and attend the event titled “Acceptance and agency at the end of modernity,” previously announced HERE.
Asher Miller of the Post Carbon Institute and Resilience.org will talk with authors Vanessa Andreotti and Dougald Hine and address questions and comments submitted in advance by attendees.
Apparently a donation will be required to watch a video of it at a later date.
The organizers say it is intended “to explore the promise and consequences of modernity, the implications of its decline, and how we – individually and collectively – can hospice what is dying and give care to what may emerge.”
A statement last week from them reads: “Anyone reading this right now is likely inhabiting the world of high-energy modernity — 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 and Dougald Hine argue in their seminal books, Hospicing Modernity and At Work in the Ruins – 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.”