The Man at 40
Forty years ago on the solstice, the first Burning Man event took place in San Francisco. Only a handful of people alive today remember that evening on Baker Beach, and ...Read More
Primal Screaming over Burning Man (and the war of cultural appropriation)
One gets the impression that many Burners thought that when Burning Man got big enough for the forces of liberal ...Read More
Raise your hand if you’ve “graduated” from Burning Man
A few years ago Sondra Carr, the artist who first introduced me to Burning Man, said that she had reached ...Read More
The March of the Little Green Man
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
Burning Book Club – Chapter 5: Sweeping the corpse of God under the rug and pretending it never happened
(This post is part of our continuing "Book Club" reading of Terry Eagleton’s “Culture and the Death of God.” Read all ...Read More
Burning Man as a Maker Movement for Jungian Archetypes – the return of book club!
Hi Everybody: Last year I started reading literary scholar Terry Eagleton's book "Culture and the Death of God," and I ...Read More
The therapeutic power of Radical Self-Expression
Chip Conley, a member of Burning Man’s board, frequently likes to say: “The more digital we get, the more ritual ...Read More
Why am I making fun of Burners (including you, yes you, personally) and an issue you’re really passionate about?
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
12 Shocking Revelations about ultra-rich Burning Man plug-and-play camps!
[Note: I have responded to the comments below with a new post, which can be found here. Also a ...Read More
Burning Man Lives
This continues to be a tough year of post-Playa bumps and bruises. (And I don’t mean the black and blue Xmas ...Read More