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What Is “Burning Man Education” and Why? A Manifesto

November 21, 2019 By Caveat Magister

When Burning Man started offering “educational programming” or “educational content” depends on what you think that is. The first survival guide was launched in 2001, while the first Regional Network ...Read More

The Theme

Care to Be Human?

June 13, 2018 By John Marx

Cogito Ergo Sum In 1637, before we, as a human race, knew what a robot was (although there was the ...Read More

Spirituality, Tales from the Playa

Burning Love Podcast Episode 2: Twin Flames, When Love Lives Only on Playa

May 25, 2018 By Alessandra Wollner

So, what if you had a soulmate, but your love only lived for one week a year in a mostly ...Read More

Digital Rights, The Ten Principles

Can You Learn About Culture in a Gift Shop?

May 22, 2018 By CameraGirl

I took this photo of the brand spanking new 2018-2019 Burning Man Calendar at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian ...Read More

The Theme

Human Nature Is a Symphony, Technology Is Changing the Instruments

May 22, 2018 By Caveat Magister

Vanderbilt Professor of History Michael Bess is the author of Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the ...Read More

Shenanigans, The Theme

BRC to Be Site of Groundbreaking Study to Determine if DJs Are Sentient

May 15, 2018 By Caveat Magister

WASHINGTON DC, May 15 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For decades scientists have debated whether DJs display signs of intelligence. This ...Read More

Global Art, Shenanigans, The Ten Principles

How Hard Is It to Be a Participant at the Smithsonian’s “No Spectators” Exhibit?

May 8, 2018 By Caveat Magister

The Mission Right now the Smithsonian is holding a major exhibit of “Burning Man art” called No Spectators. Everyone is ...Read More

The Ten Principles

Radical Inclusion: Coachella & Special Needs

April 17, 2018 By John "Halcyon" Styn

I attended the 1st Coachella Music Festival in 1999. (One year after my 1st Burn.) But I wonder, "would I ...Read More

The Theme

Paradox Is at the Heart of Human Nature

April 16, 2018 By Caveat Magister

In his previous work, leading Existential Psychologist Kirk Schneider has put the experience of "awe" at the center of human ...Read More

Shenanigans, The Theme

Burning Man 2018 to Institute CAPTCHA Protocol at Gate

April 3, 2018 By Caveat Magister

San Francisco, April 4 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fearing that too many ticket holders are in fact spambots, Burning Man ...Read More