It's Too Late. Do It Anyway!, Thick Press
The Hologram, Pluto Press
Free Admission!
Doors: 6:30 pm
Join authors Cassie Thornton and Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova for storytelling and pictures about what it means to do it anyway, very slowly, as culture workers and as people, even when the global situation tells us it is too late.
Magda and Cassie are very excited about the chance to present the two main Hologram books about this 10 year old protocol for distributed care, through storytelling and images. They will present what happened in the 5 years between the first and second major publications associated with The Hologram protocol and community, including:
-building a model for popular education about open source anti-capitalist care that anyone can do
-refining the ways we give and receive care ourselves and in our communities
-the collective building of a large rhizomatic global organization too big to hold with our own hands
We've been talking about this as a presentation of our codex, which is practically and etymologically a list of medicines but also a pile of books and ideas. This may seem very practical, but don’t worry, the secret is that the project started as a parafiction. The Hologram has quite mythical roots as a rumor or even a lie that was spoken and written into being, published in the first book. In order to make the prophecy of the first book real, we turned the project into more of a popular education model and thus a common tool for as many people as possible to get support before, during and after all the apocalypses. And so the project also took a turn towards a very particular attention on grassroots cultural and linguistic translation of the hologram as a practice as well as of the texts and ideas including Spanish, Greek, German and Chinese translated materials. The Hologram was also incorporated into many other movements documented in text to support direct action and to make non-expert care more accessible for more people including Pirate Care from the Vagabond Series, and Care by Mark Garavan. Overall, we will use storytelling and pictures to present what it means to do it anyway for us, as culture workers and as people, as a little part of a few vast and invisible networks of militant care, even when the global situation tells us that it is too late.
In short, come for story telling with pictures by Cassie and Magda, and a little display table of artifacts.
