Opinion | Burning Man Journal

What Burning Man Can Teach the Surgeon General About Curing Loneliness

May 18, 2023 By Caveat Magister

The Surgeon General has declared that loneliness and isolation are an epic health crisis and must be addressed. According to The New York Times: More than half of Americans are ...Read More

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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