Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Rachel Sadd on Social Contracts and Micro-inclusions
Rachel Sadd has been the Executive Director of the Ace Monster Toys makerspace in Oakland since July 2015. Born into ...Read More
Posts about Serious Stuff
Serious opinions on serious topics from (mostly) serious people.
Kneecap That Impact
By Will Chase
Haters are gonna hate, and Burning Man haters are gonna hate on Burners’ environmental hypocrisy. And you know what? They’re ...Read More
Burning Man, Identity and The Binary
By Marty Bortz
The construction of meaning has been a central focus in philosophy and social science for several decades. Philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists ...Read More
Hold My Beer …
By Will Chase
Yeah yeah, we get it. We’re all free spirits. We’re especially free in Black Rock City, right? That’s great. And ...Read More
Getting To Know Larry Through His Recently Published Writings
One of the questions I’m most frequently asked about Larry Harvey is not “what he was like” but “what he ...Read More
The World May Well Be Held Together by an Eyeglass Screw
By Will Chase
My gaze swung languidly across the barren ground like a sauntering elephant’s trunk. I was scanning the playa surface for ...Read More
A Guide to Gifting, Givers and Gratitude: A Treatise from the Philosophical Center
By Larry Harvey
Publisher’s Note: This essay was written over a year ago, but due to Larry Harvey’s untimely death it was not ...Read More
Consider Your Impact. You Might Be Surprised.
By Will Chase
I was driving in my neighborhood recently, when a particular billboard caught my eye. Two versions of SpiderMan from different ...Read More
How to Take the Fyre Out of “Influencers” on Playa
Let’s say before Euterpe came to Burning Man she decided to do a little research. So she goes to Instagram ...Read More