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How Cyborgs Replace “Stories” With “Code,” And What Happens Next

March 19, 2018 By Caveat Magister

On January 6, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System sent a letter to Apple executives urging greater study into the impact of smart phones on the cognitive capacity and mental ...Read More

Spirituality, The Theme

Ritual Principles of Milk + Honey, Purveyors of Radical Shabbat Since 2008

May 24, 2017 By Alessandra Wollner

By Alessandra Wollner and H. Connor Moss When Burning Man’s 2017 theme became public, a collective YAAAAAAAAAY! rang through the ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

How Creative Expression Enhances Civic Engagement

May 19, 2017 By Caveat Magister

Has it ever seemed to you that there are more ways to be a citizen of Black Rock City than ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

The Evolution of Gifting

May 18, 2017 By Caveat Magister

Theresa Duncan spent her whole adult life doing development and fundraising work for non-profits. But after she went to her ...Read More

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Losing My Non-Religion: Chronicle of an Emerging Sacrament Among Native Burning Nerds

May 17, 2017 By Census Team

By S. Megan Heller, BRC Census Researcher / Manager 2004-2015 (with a shit load of help from Picky!) Like ...Read More

The Theme

How Radical Ritual Creates the World — Reading “The Sacred and the Profane”

May 8, 2017 By Caveat Magister

We like to think of knowledge as a binary system: things are either knowable or unknowable, with nothing in between. ...Read More

Regionals, The Ten Principles

GLC 2017: What Is Burning Man’s Secret Mission?

May 4, 2017 By Jon Mitchell

When Burning Man participants talk about "getting it" or "doing it right," what is the "It?" Is it "transformation?" Is ...Read More

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Camp Loveland – a Case Study in Radical Rituals

May 2, 2017 By Caveat Magister

A guest post by Dragonfly and Jenny Bee, managers at Camp Loveland Loveland Village formed out of a collection of ...Read More

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Decentralized Dance Party: A Case Study in Radical Rituals

April 19, 2017 By Caveat Magister

Editor's Note: Decentralized Dance Parties (DDPs) are brilliant in their simplicity. One person carries a low-power FM transmitter on his ...Read More

The Theme

Is Going to Burning Man a Hero’s Journey?

April 12, 2017 By Caveat Magister

“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had ...Read More