My response is posted in this thread: What does "hospicing modernity" mean?
A bit more here … the challenge is that “modernity” writ large is both practically necessary and equally inevitably headed for disaster. Machado do Oliveira sees the second half of that clearly. Her book sits on my shelf about 12 inches over from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now. My current mission is to make both of those sorts of views work together. They can - but it takes some carpentry.