Cassie Thornton

A two-faced catalyst, Cassie works in at least two ways to clean up some of the old colonial and capitalist garbage lying around our collective psychic architecture. First, using good-natured practices she has developed including The Hologram, she helps groups and individuals build social infrastructure with trust, integrity and communication that will naturally evict hierarchies and toxic uses of power. This work includes workshops, consulting, and lectures about care, debt and crisis. This work can live independently or can be the groundwork for the second type of work, which includes sharp and incisive political art about the absurdity of our most sacred social structures (power, privilege, financialization and security) on a burning planet. This work has recently included writing extensively about The Flat White Dimension where we drink coffee and talk about the world burning, attending a tech conference as a working class elder from the future, or turning a Swiss Spa into a place that transforms privilege into something useful. Cassie wrote a popular book called The Hologram published by Pluto Press, and helped launch an international social movement where all caregivers are cared for. She has also been a steward for a bar that is secretly a social clinic in Berlin called The Casino for Social Medicine.