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Oct 16, 2025
Vanessa Andreotti, a renowned academic and Canada Research Chair, engages in a deep conversation about the unraveling of modernity. She introduces the concept of 'hospicing modernity,' urging us to bear witness to this transformative period. The discussion spans the importance of relationality over simple fixes, the 'soft collapse' of institutions like universities, and the potential of AI as a supportive ally in compassionate engagement. They contemplate how we might reconnect with our belonging to Earth and each other amidst these collective challenges.
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Modernity As An Unsustainable House
- Modernity resembles a house growing larger than the planet, built on an imposed separability between humans and nature.
- Its walls (nation-state and Enlightenment humanism) and roof (global capital) create systemic crises as they exceed planetary limits.
Crisis Is Relational, Not Just Informational
- The crisis we face is not primarily informational but relational; people respond by panic or dissociation.
- We must create spaces of inquiry that hold destabilization and enable collective reckoning and learning.
Train To Stay With The Trouble
- Train your nervous system to face difficult truths instead of dissociating or panicking.
- Stay together and compost harms so institutions and people can learn to exist differently.
