Reading Club: Hospicing Modernity

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READING CLUB: HOSPICING MODERNITY

Join us for our first School of Humans Reading Club event on Wednesday, April 29. 2026 — 18h to 20h

The book Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira departs from the assumption that modernity is beyond repair. It asks how we can shift our energy away from trying to ‘fix’ it towards the sticky work of trying to lay to rest the stories, habits and behaviours we inherited from this system. What grief, disillusionment and complexity do we have to befriend to do this work, and how can these states become generative for something else to be born?

We gather for an evening to read aloud together and discuss selected sections from the book.

If you didn’t read the book before and want to familiarise yourself with the ideas before the session, this video is a helpful introduction:

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