Interview with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti: Learning to see in the dark

Grief, hope, and the end of enlightenment fantasies

Authors

  • dr. Roanne van Voorst University of Amsterdam Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63934/1f4ceg12

Keywords:

Grief, Hope, Relationships, Possible futures

Abstract

This summer I read Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti’s book ‘Hospicing Modernity’ among fragrant lavender, in a wild French garden. I was on holiday: the academy, and even politics and wars, seemed far away for a moment. Thankfully so, because like so many people around me I needed this pause to find some mental rest, to regain a bit of courage after all the disheartening news that I’d seen on the news, even to recover some hope. Or so I thought. Until I opened this book and began to realise that hope - at least a naïve version of it - is the very last thing we need to imagine that other futures might still be possible.

Author Biography

  • dr. Roanne van Voorst, University of Amsterdam

    Roanne van Voorst is a futures-anthropologist and writer currently affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Futures Reframed Journal and has published eight books (academic, nonfiction, and fiction) and over 40 peer-reviewed academic articles. More information about her work can be found at www.anthropologyofthefuture.com.

Futures Reframed

Downloads

Published

2026-05-08

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Darkness Reframed

Section

Interview

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. Articles are published under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which allows others to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. When reused, the authorship of the work must be stated and reference made to the original publication in this journal.

How to Cite

van Voorst, R. (2026). Interview with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti: Learning to see in the dark: Grief, hope, and the end of enlightenment fantasies. Futures Reframed, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.63934/1f4ceg12