Serious Stuff, The Theme What We Can Learn About the Soul by Talking About the Body — Reading “Materialism” June 5, 2017 By Caveat Magister Sometimes I think that Terry Eagleton is a Don Quixote figure, on a quest that has taken him out into ...Read More
Serious Stuff Why Burning Man Sucks at Transitions, and What We Can Do About It May 30, 2017 By Caveat Magister I want to talk about transitions. About leavings, about departures, about letting go. Because we suck at them. I mean ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles How Creative Expression Enhances Civic Engagement May 19, 2017 By Caveat Magister Has it ever seemed to you that there are more ways to be a citizen of Black Rock City than ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles The Evolution of Gifting May 18, 2017 By Caveat Magister Theresa Duncan spent her whole adult life doing development and fundraising work for non-profits. But after she went to her ...Read More
The Theme How Radical Ritual Creates the World — Reading “The Sacred and the Profane” May 8, 2017 By Caveat Magister We like to think of knowledge as a binary system: things are either knowable or unknowable, with nothing in between. ...Read More
Participate in BRC, The Theme Camp Loveland – a Case Study in Radical Rituals May 2, 2017 By Caveat Magister A guest post by Dragonfly and Jenny Bee, managers at Camp Loveland Loveland Village formed out of a collection of ...Read More
Rhymes with Burning Man, The Theme Decentralized Dance Party: A Case Study in Radical Rituals April 19, 2017 By Caveat Magister Editor's Note: Decentralized Dance Parties (DDPs) are brilliant in their simplicity. One person carries a low-power FM transmitter on his ...Read More
The Theme Is Going to Burning Man a Hero’s Journey? April 12, 2017 By Caveat Magister “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had ...Read More
Shenanigans The “Crime Wave” at the GLC Was Exaggerated: There Is No Black Rock City Crime Syndicate April 11, 2017 By Caveat Magister Look, I’m not going to deny that something weird was going on at Burning Man's Global Leadership Conference (GLC). I ...Read More
Regionals, Serious Stuff This Is What a Real Diversity Conversation Looks Like April 10, 2017 By Caveat Magister Sometimes a moment that nobody plans for crystalizes the truth of an issue better than any prepared remarks ever could. ...Read More