Global Art, Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles Decommodifying Permission: Participation vs. Commodification March 21, 2023 By Caveat Magister 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
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
Shenanigans, Survive and Thrive PSA: A Burning Man Tip – Where do I find the Internet? August 21, 2012 By Caveat Magister 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
Shenanigans, Survive and Thrive (An unlikely) Public Service Announcement – Meet the Theme Camps! August 20, 2012 By Caveat Magister There's no problem in this world that a good PSA can't fix - with the exceptions of genocide and erectile ...Read More
Shenanigans, Survive and Thrive (Almost Certainly Not Really A) Public Service Announcement – Cope with Traffic! August 17, 2012 By Caveat Magister Back when I got extremely drunk with a high ranking member of BMIR's leadership team, I was specifically asked to ...Read More
Shenanigans, Survive and Thrive (Probably not a) Public Service Announcement – Prepare for the Weather! August 14, 2012 By Caveat Magister This is the second in a series of PSA's for playa radio station BMIR that emerged out of too much ...Read More
Shenanigans, Survive and Thrive (Possibly a) Public Service Announcement – Leave No Trace! August 10, 2012 By Caveat Magister The other week a high ranking member of BMIR's staff got very drunk at my place. "Caveat!" he said, "You ...Read More