Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles When Is Gifting Not Gifting? April 5, 2024 By Caveat Magister Some of my least favorite experiences as a Burner are when we become victims of our own success. Often this happens when the “default world” culture takes something that we ...Read More
Global Programming, Regionals, Serious Stuff Global Leadership for a world of amateurs April 18, 2015 By Caveat Magister I’ve crashed about half of the Burning Man Global Leadership Conferences (including back when it was the “Regional Network Conferences) ...Read More
Serious Stuff What I’ve learned about Burning Man from reading “Culture and the Death of God.” April 6, 2015 By Caveat Magister (This post is inspired by reading the final chapter of Terry Eagleton’s “Culture and the Death of God.” Read all the ...Read More
Serious Stuff Primal Screaming over Burning Man (and the war of cultural appropriation) March 23, 2015 By Caveat Magister One gets the impression that many Burners thought that when Burning Man got big enough for the forces of liberal ...Read More
Serious Stuff Raise your hand if you’ve “graduated” from Burning Man March 11, 2015 By Caveat Magister A few years ago Sondra Carr, the artist who first introduced me to Burning Man, said that she had reached ...Read More
Serious Stuff The March of the Little Green Man February 20, 2015 By Will Chase On an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday, around 80,000 people sat nervously in front of their computers, waiting for the noon hour ...Read More
Serious Stuff Burning Book Club – Chapter 5: Sweeping the corpse of God under the rug and pretending it never happened January 26, 2015 By Caveat Magister (This post is part of our continuing "Book Club" reading of Terry Eagleton’s “Culture and the Death of God.” Read all ...Read More
Serious Stuff Burning Man as a Maker Movement for Jungian Archetypes – the return of book club! January 4, 2015 By Caveat Magister Hi Everybody: Last year I started reading literary scholar Terry Eagleton's book "Culture and the Death of God," and I ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles The therapeutic power of Radical Self-Expression December 29, 2014 By Caveat Magister Chip Conley, a member of Burning Man’s board, frequently likes to say: “The more digital we get, the more ritual ...Read More
Shenanigans Why am I making fun of Burners (including you, yes you, personally) and an issue you’re really passionate about? November 17, 2014 By Caveat Magister This is a response to the feedback on my list “12 Shocking Revelations about ultra-rich Burning Man plug-and-play camps!” Before ...Read More