Serious Stuff Frontiers of Decommodification: Video Games, Micro-transactions, and Authenticity December 11, 2017 By Caveat Magister I’m not familiar with any serious schools of thought suggesting that Burning Man has much in common with video games. ...Read More
Serious Stuff You Got Your Rules in My Freedom! You Got Your Freedom in My Rules! November 21, 2017 By Caveat Magister I’d like to take a moment and pretend that Thanksgiving is the perfect time to talk about something that I ...Read More
Serious Stuff This is Not the Utopia You’re Looking For October 10, 2017 By Caveat Magister “Transformational experiences” are bullshit, and Burning Man doesn’t change a damn thing. I’ve spent the other posts in this series ...Read More
Serious Stuff Why Am I Still Here? The Ties That Bind Us to Black Rock City September 21, 2017 By Caveat Magister Back when I was only four Black Rock Cities in, I’d overhear people who were in their 15th, 16th, year ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles What If, after 10 Years of Really Trying, I Still Suck at a Principle? September 15, 2017 By Caveat Magister It’s time to admit the truth: I suck at Radical Self-Reliance. It’s really bad. I went to my first Regional ...Read More
Serious Stuff Reflections on 10 Years of This Shit September 12, 2017 By Caveat Magister This ferocious, brutal, impossible year was my 10th trip to Black Rock City. I believe 10 is the “heat stroke” ...Read More
Shenanigans, Tales from the Playa The Triumph of Fun and Weird Over Sense and Efficiency September 2, 2017 By Caveat Magister After 30 years, someone turned the difficulty level up. Burners who have been here for decades and never had a ...Read More
Tales from the Playa Perfect Strangers September 1, 2017 By Caveat Magister I woke up to the sound of a strange man playing the piano in my camp. I don't just mean ...Read More
Tales from the Playa Sun and Dust, Music and Dreams August 31, 2017 By Caveat Magister By late morning, I was giving up. Dragging my still exhausted caucus just a few blocks in the sun, I ...Read More
Tales from the Playa Day and Night August 28, 2017 By Caveat Magister It’s not so much Radical Self-Reliance as “survival” that is on a lot of people’s minds. The days are brutal. ...Read More