Serious Stuff You’ve Failed, Now Do What Feels Like Burning Man – “Too Offensive For Burning Man?” part 4 March 8, 2019 By Caveat Magister In prior posts we’ve looked at the danger of trying to make generally applicable, abstract, rules for dealing with acidic ...Read More
Serious Stuff It’s Not About Rules, It’s About People – “Too Offensive for Burning Man?” part 3 March 6, 2019 By Caveat Magister So okay, quick recap: In part one we examined the question of whether there even is a kind of “offensive” ...Read More
Serious Stuff Those Who Would Sacrifice Inclusion for Expression, Or Expression for Inclusion, Get Neither – “Too Offensive For Burning Man?” part 2 March 5, 2019 By Caveat Magister The second most common, and least helpful, way of looking at the question of "what to do about offensive art" ...Read More
Serious Stuff Too “Offensive” for Burning Man? (Part 1) March 4, 2019 By Caveat Magister By the last months of 2018, a few incidents caused organizers around the Global Network to have a series of ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles I Am Not a Brand, Am I? February 6, 2019 By Caveat Magister So, after my post about the Fyre Festival, my friend Robin Lehto — who is very active in San Francisco's underground ...Read More
Serious Stuff What Burning Man Can Learn from the Fyre Festival January 22, 2019 By Caveat Magister Two documentaries about the made-for-internet disaster of the “Fyre Festival” have caused psychological tremors along Burning Man’s emotional fault lines. ...Read More
BRC Art, Serious Stuff “Is the 747 Art?” Is a Great Question, but It Might Not Be the Right One September 25, 2018 By Caveat Magister The best thing about the 747, in my opinion, is the way it has caused large groups of people to ...Read More
Tales from the Playa Sacrifices and Memories September 2, 2018 By Caveat Magister Year after year, the sculpture at Burning Man can rightfully be considered some of the most innovative, experimental, and engaging ...Read More
Shenanigans, Tales from the Playa Everything Changes When You Blink August 31, 2018 By Caveat Magister Near midnight, as we waited in line for hot chocolate at Ebb and Glow, “Terri” told me about a Gigsville ...Read More
BRC Art, Tales from the Playa How the Magic Happens August 29, 2018 By Caveat Magister On Saturdy, Sara Von Roenn was desperate. A three year Burner, she had brought an art installation to Black Rock ...Read More