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
Serious Stuff Why does Burning Man have no literary culture? January 22, 2013 By Caveat Magister John Curley once wrote that many of the world’s greatest photographers come from around the globe specifically to take ...Read More
Serious Stuff Thoughts about being an asshole at Burning Man January 14, 2013 By Caveat Magister After I read the paper Moze wrote about the development of the Temple and what it means, my first thought ...Read More
Serious Stuff Cargo Cult is a daring – and dangerous – theme. Get it right. December 14, 2012 By Caveat Magister I belong to a large but informal group of Burners whose unofficial motto is: “Fuck the theme.” We came to ...Read More
Serious Stuff How many theme camps can dance on the head of a Burning Man ticket? November 19, 2012 By Caveat Magister Have you come up with a theory about how Burning Man should handle ticket sales yet? ...Read More
Serious Stuff Does Burning Man have a favorite economist? October 31, 2012 By Caveat Magister A recent discussion I was having about the future of Burning Man raised the question: “is it really part of ...Read More
Serious Stuff Predicting Burning Man’s future … in headlines October 17, 2012 By Caveat Magister The title of Adam Rothstein’s essay about the Burning Man experience is “Burning Man is Grey.” You and I might ...Read More
Serious Stuff Opera de la Playa September 14, 2012 By Jennifer Raiser [Jennifer Raiser is an avid long-time Burner, Burning Man Project board member, theme camp leader, and Black Rock Ranger. Her ...Read More
Shenanigans Corrections from Burning Man 2012 September 12, 2012 By Caveat Magister In an attempt to keep our community informed, I am correcting some of the more egregious errors I propagated at ...Read More
Serious Stuff Lessons Learned 2012 September 11, 2012 By John "Halcyon" Styn For the "Question of the Week" for my podcast, I asked people to share lessons they learned while at Burning ...Read More