Hologram (eBook)

Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future

Cassie Thornton (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4323-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A radical new approach to health and caregiving in the age of COVID-19.

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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.

Autor

lt;p>Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist from the US, currently living in Canada. She refers to herself as a feminist economist, a title that frames her work as that of a social scientist actively preparing for the economics of a future society that produces health and life without the tools that reproduce oppression— like money, police or prisons. She is currently the co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada.

Inhalt

Foreword by Max Haiven

Preface: Artist Update

Acknowledgements

The Fool by Stella Lawless, The Hologram’s Resident Witch

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: i. Trust; ii. Wishes; iii. Time; iv. Patterns

3. The Practice

4. Wikipedia Entry from the Future

5. Feminist Economics and the People’s Apocalypse

Appendix I: Art, Debt, Health and Care: An Interview

Appendix II: Contextualizing 'The Hologram': Feminist Ethics, Post-Work Commons and Commons in Exile, by Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova

The Ten of Swords, Pulled and Written by Stella Lawless, The Hologram’s Resident Witch

Notes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Vagabonds
• Reihe/Serie: Vagabonds
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anti-Capitalism • Caregiving • Coronavirus • Covid-19 • Feminism • feminist economics • feminist theory • Greek crisis • Healthcare • Hologram • Mental Health • mutual aid • Pandemic • Social reproduction • Solidarity • well-being
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4323-6 / 0745343236
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4323-5 / 9780745343235