The Hologram

In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take health and care back into our hands? In The Hologram, Cassie Thornton puts forward a bold vision for revolutionary care: a viral, peer-to-peer feminist health network.

The premise is simple: three people - a 'triangle' - meet on a regular basis, digitally or in person, to focus on the physical, mental and social health of a fourth - the 'hologram'. The hologram, in turn, teaches their caregivers how to give and also receive care; each member of their triangle becomes a hologram for another, different triangle, and so the system expands.

Drawing on radical models developed in the Greek solidarity clinics during a decade of crisis, and directly engaging with discussions around mutual aid and the coronavirus pandemic, The Hologram develops the skills and relationships we desperately need for the anti-capitalist struggles of the present, and the post-capitalist society of the future. One part art, one part activism, one part science fiction, this book offers the reader a guide to establishing a Hologram network as well as reflections on this cooperative work in progress.

The Fool
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface: Artist's Update
1. A Different Medicine is Possible: Visiting the Greek Solidarity Clinics
2. Is this the End or is this the Beginning? - A Four-Part Course in Social Holography
Trust
Wishes
Time
Patterns
3. The Practice
4. Wikipedia Entry from the Future
5. Feminist Economics and the People's Apocalypse
6. Appendix I: Art, Debt, Health and Care: An Interview
7. Appendix II: Contextualizing The Hologram: Feminist Ethics, Post-Work Commons and Commons in Exile
Notes
The Ten of Swords