Decommodifying Permission: Participation vs. Commodification
Since I started this series, I’ve gotten a few messages from people saying (more or less): “YES, I want to be part of a decommodified culture! But also, I need ...Read More
Predicting Burning Man’s future … in headlines
The title of Adam Rothstein’s essay about the Burning Man experience is “Burning Man is Grey.” You and I might ...Read More
Opera de la Playa
[Jennifer Raiser is an avid long-time Burner, Burning Man Project board member, theme camp leader, and Black Rock Ranger. Her ...Read More
Corrections from Burning Man 2012
In an attempt to keep our community informed, I am correcting some of the more egregious errors I propagated at ...Read More
Lessons Learned 2012
For the "Question of the Week" for my podcast, I asked people to share lessons they learned while at Burning ...Read More
PSA: A Burning Man Tip – Where do I find the Internet?
One week to go! I'm so excited I can't feel my legs! Do you think I'll need those? One of ...Read More
(An unlikely) Public Service Announcement – Meet the Theme Camps!
There's no problem in this world that a good PSA can't fix - with the exceptions of genocide and erectile ...Read More
(Almost Certainly Not Really A) Public Service Announcement – Cope with Traffic!
Back when I got extremely drunk with a high ranking member of BMIR's leadership team, I was specifically asked to ...Read More
(Probably not a) Public Service Announcement – Prepare for the Weather!
This is the second in a series of PSA's for playa radio station BMIR that emerged out of too much ...Read More
(Possibly a) Public Service Announcement – Leave No Trace!
The other week a high ranking member of BMIR's staff got very drunk at my place. "Caveat!" he said, "You ...Read More