Writers of Burning Man, Unite!
Does Burning Man have a literary culture, at all? The answer is no. But by this time next year – ...Read More
Posts about Serious Stuff
Serious opinions on serious topics from (mostly) serious people.
Art and Whimsy are renewable resources
Where’d all the fun people go? A recent San Francisco newspaper article was ostensibly about a book – the newly ...Read More
A reading list inspired by, but not about, Burning Man
A few weeks ago a call went out on the Burning Nerds list: ideas for books and articles that aren’t ...Read More
Burning rituals for our digital world
For the past few weeks I’ve been struggling with something Chip Conley said at Burning Man’s Global Leadership Conference. (You ...Read More
We’re no better than anybody else, you jackass
The session on “outreach to subcultures” at the Global Leadership Conference was winding down when the Kid-Who-Cares-More-Than-You in the front ...Read More
Burning Man may be the future, but it’s not an escape
Any future envisioned to be “like Burning Man” will have to wrestle with this fundamental fact: Burning Man forces you ...Read More
In defense of academia, and why it’s good for Burning Man
I view academia as the most open minded institution humanity has yet created rivaling even the open mindedness of Burning ...Read More
Burning Man is a story field
By Jon Mitchell
What makes it Burning Man isn't the objects, their positions, or our positions in relation to them. It's the fields ...Read More
Burning Man should treat “Academia” the way it does “Commercialization”
UPDATED AT BOTTOM The academics have come to Burning Man. They’re through the gates. They’ve always been here, actually: but ...Read More