Burning Man Ticket Update + Hitler & Cargo Cult Theme
Did you ever think about how good news and bad news depends on your perspective?
That what might be good news for one person or for one species might not be so good for another human or another species?
So with that in mind, Burners every where certainly celebrated the news that on July 23, 2013 BLM approved Burning Man‘s use permit for FOUR MORE YEARS. (Read all about it) Which means that we can all plan ahead. For the Burning Man organization, they don’t have to spend as much energy on getting approved for next year but focus on the event itself in the years to come instead!
The other news, which also depends on your perspective, is that BLM has approved an increase in the population of Black Rock City to a whopping 68,000 people.
While that doesn’t mean that there will be 68,000 people out there the whole time, it does allow Burning Man to release more tickets this year:
Instead of only selling 1000 OMG tickets next week, they will be offering 4000 tickets at $380 a piece.
And it will be easier to get your tickets because pre-registration by making your Burner profile has been extended until TOMORROW MONDAY AUGUST 5 (so do it NOW http://profiles.burningman.com/)
First come, first served fully transferable tickets, limited to two (2) per person, starts Weds. August 7, 2013 at 12pm (noon) PDT. Tickets are Will Call.
Oh and the theme, if you haven’t heard yet, is Cargo Cult. Posts coming up about BICYCLES at Burning Man and what to wear to a Cargo Cult Party!
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Getting Skooled: A Burning Man Biblio
Back in April 2013, right after (and I mean right after!) I submitted my Burning Man paper to my professor (read part 1 the shadow grows, part 2 integrating the shadow, part 3 Ten Principles/New economy), Will Chase on Jack Rabbit Speaks posted a link to the Burning Man Bilbiography. When I noted and emailed that they had missed Chris Carlsson’s book Nowtopia which has a chapter on Burning Man, LadyBee thanked me and responded that:
“The bibliography is abridged – I included published books that are factual in nature, either entirely about Burning Man or with significant chapters on it. I didn’t include every book with a Burning Man mention, nor did I include fiction. Typically writers let us know about books with writing about Burning Man, and the authors generally send us copies of their books.”
My hope is to slowly but surely add hotlinks, images, and some comments about each of these resources as I get a chance to check them out. The content below is from here on the Burning Man website.
But what I really want is a list of all the academic articles on Burning Man! That I will have to build another way. Keep reading to see LadyBee’s curated list of Burning Man books and prepared to be skooled! Read more…
Burning Man 2013: Get Your (OMG) Tickets!
Burning Man 2013 Theme
What’s more important than what you’re going to wear at Burning Man? Other than water? (Upcoming posts on Cargo Cult theme costume ideas soon!)
It’s this–
Do you have your Burning Man ticket yet?
Gratefully, we do! (And we have our camp placed in Kidsville next to the Cactus Garden on Desiderata at 5:15!)
If you don’t have your ticket, and you’re planning on going, don’t delay.
Tickets to this year’s Burning Man event have NOT sold out–YET. But you can’t just show up and buy a ticket either.
At noon today, July 31, the STEP program closed. That’s where a lot of my friends who needed tickets got theirs. (STEP was a way that Burners could sell their tickets to other Burners at cost. ) Even without STEP, Burners will be wanting to get tickets to Burners, so you can keep an eye out on various Burning Man lists, facebook, Craigslist, etc and snap one up. People’s plans change and there are always tickets available at the last minute.
But if you don’t want to wait that long, register NOW by making a Burner profile (if you haven’t already) for the OMG sale of 1000 tickets at $380 each with a limit of two. If you’ve already bought two, you can’t buy more; you’ll have to get someone else to fill out a profile.We go through all of this BS to deal with scalpers…
CRUCIAL DEADLINES:
Th. Aug 1 by 6pm: Make your Burner profile http://profiles.burningman.com.
UPDATE: You can still create a Burner Profile! Which means you can still register for the OMG sale!
Fri. Aug 2 noon: register for OMG. Registration closes noon Aug. 5.
Weds. Aug. 7 at 12pm (noon) PDT. Sale. Tickets will be held at Will Call and are fully transferrable.
Read more about tickets to Burning Man here: http://tickets2.burningman.com
You’re Invited to The 3:15 Experiment’s 20th Anniversary Party August 1-31, 2013 3:15am
The 20th Anniversary of the 3:15 Experiment
(Note: Last summer my doctoral fieldwork was on the 3:15 Experiment; below is one of the papers I wrote on the topic illustrated with some of my 3:15 poems that were published in ArtLife Limited Editions. This year, my fieldwork is on Burning Man which takes place during the last week of the 20th anniversary of the Experiment. Everyone is invited to give it a whirl!)
“Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.” Heraclitus.
“For it is here, where we stand, that we should try to make shine the light of the hidden divine life.” Martin Buber (2006, p. 38)
“Remember here that the “word” in our culture is inked in black, and this selection of color for ink may be more than merely convenient and efficient. The very blackness of the linked letter supports its indelible fixity and the cursing power of literalism.” James Hillman (2010, p 93)
In 2013, the 3:15 Experiment celebrates its 20th anniversary as an annual “collective consciousness” ritualistic writing experiment where poets from around the globe wake every August morning at 3:15am to write poetry: “writers searching for words from another place” (Dinsmore & Alley, 2006, p. xv). By exploring hypnogogic and hypnopompic states (between sleeping and waking), this experimental exercise challenges writers, and goes beyond the individual act to provide insight into the collective sleeping/dreaming mind to create an epic conversation through an unusual ritual that is individual yet collaborative, disciplined yet open. (Read the text of “Man Ray Kitty Jumps” and see a larger image here.)
On the Experiment website, poet Anne Waldman described the 3:15 Experiment as Read more…
Fruitvale Station: Review by Ron Wells
movie review by Ron Wells
Documentary: Burning Man Impact on Reno
How did I end up at Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert in 1992?
Two reasons: 1) a Santa Cruz friend who was a member of the Cacaphony Society which partnered with early Burners to make the event happen; and 2) I was a grad student in English at the University of Nevada Reno from 1991-1993. (Read more about my first trip to Burning Man and about the early, wild years).
In 1992, when I mentioned Burning Man to my Reno friends and fellow grad students, no one had heard of it…and only two friends, Helen Jones who ran the Women’s Center and her partner Steven Foster, wanted to join me. In fact, the Reno Gazette had a hard time finding locals for a news story.
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Reno in the early 90s was a very tough town for a Californian, especially a coastal Californian like me. The challenge wasn’t the dry air–although it took me a year not to be thirsty all the time–but the cultural climate. I lived north of town, in Stead (instead of Reno I lived in Stead…of Reno…) in officer’s housing on an old base near an airfield. There were a couple of cool coffee houses in town, but the town revolved around two activities: casinos and Wolf Pack sports. Neither held much interest to me; we were more likely to be found in the mountains or in the desert when we weren’t teaching or studying.
Reno has changed significantly in the past 20 years, and this 2012 documentary highlights the impact of Burning Man Read more…
Burning Man:
A Journey in Community Soul Making to Create a New Economy
tracing one woman’s Burning Man experiences from 1992-2013
from a depth psychological perspective
part 1: The Shadow Grows
part 2: integrating the Shadow
by Gwendolyn Alley
Pacifica Graduate Institute doctoral student in Community, Liberation & Ecopsychology
Burning Man’s Ten Principles help to prevent the common violences of ordinary people toward each other and the planet. Korten (2009) says that there are just two main issues that we face: one, the “wanton destruction of… earth that sustains us and is our home” and two, “the unjust division of what remains of that abundance between the profligate and desperate in our society–a division perpetuated by widespread, ongoing, and self-destructive violence.”
1. Radical Inclusion.
“Anyone may be a part of Burning Man,” writes Harvey on the Burning Man website. “We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.” Primo Levi, in his essay “The Gray Zone” points out that the ascent of the priviledged…is an anguishing but unfailing phenomenon: only in utopias is it absent” (in Schepper-Hughes & Bougous p. 85). For many, Burning Man is that sort of utopia, a place where the Ten Principles provide a code of conduct that maintains a greater equality on the playa than anywhere else they know. While it is true that certain members of the monied classes fly in to stay in RVs and enjoy private art cars to get around the playa, for the most part, celebrities and the wealthy at Burning Man mix it up and get as dusty as everyone else.
2. Gifting.
“Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving,” Read more…
Burning Man:
A Journey in Community Soul Making to Create a New Economy
Part 2 in a 3 Part Series
tracing one woman’s Burning Man experiences from 1992-2013
from a depth psychological perspective
by Gwendolyn Alley Pacifica Graduate Institute doctoral student in
Community, Liberation & Ecopsychology
read part 1 here: the shadow grows
read part 3 here: 10 Principles
“What we call civilized consciousness has steadily separated itself from the basic instincts. But these instincts have not disappeared. They have merely lost their contact with our consciousness and are thus forced to assert themselves in an indirect fashion.” C. G. Jung (1964, p. 72)
“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected, and it is liable to burst forth suddenly in a moment of unawareness. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well meaning intentions.” C. G. Jung (CW 11, para 131).
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In 2002, after attending Burning Man nine times (1992, 1995-2002), I was ready to call it quits; I’d had enough. Nearly 30,000 people made Black Rock City their home for the week prior to Labor Day, and it seemed like many of them were clueless about the ethos and the culture of Burning Man. They were spectators, not participants. In all my years at Burning Man, I had always felt free to express myself—free to be dressed or undressed, safe to roam the desert as I desired, to dance. But in 2002, the shadow of the “gift” economy reared its ugly head twice to face me. Read more…
Burning Man:
A Journey in Community Soul Making to Create a New Economy
Part 1–The Shadow Grows
Part 1 in a 3 Part Series tracing one woman’s experiences from 1992-2013
from a depth psychological perspective
by Gwendolyn Alley
Pacifica Graduate Institute doctoral student in Community, Liberation & Ecopsychology
“What we call civilized consciousness has steadily separated itself from the basic instincts. But these instincts have not disappeared. They have merely lost their contact with our consciousness and are thus forced to assert themselves in an indirect fashion.” C. G. Jung (1964, p. 72)
On Labor Day weekend in 1992, I left Interstate 80 about 30 miles East of Reno and headed North on the two lane highway that would take me through the Pauite Indian Reservation, then past the large turquoise expanse of salty Pyramid Lake, beside the dry lake bed of Lake Winnemucca, and deeper into the Great Basin desert, stopping only briefly to pee by the side of the road and gather an armload of sagebrush, softly gray-green and fragrant with tiny yellow flowers. Under a moonless sky, I drove into the darkness, startled out of my reverie not by other cars but by rambling cattle, dashing coyote, ghostly owls, and rushing rabbits. Ninety miles later, I arrived in Gerlach, poised at the edge of the Black Rock Desert, where only the lights of Bruno’s Casino greeted me; everything else, even the gas station, was closed on a Saturday night.
To say the Black Rock Desert is huge is an understatement: it extends 100 miles out from Gerlach and totals 1000 square miles. Following the cryptic directions on the Xeroxed map my friends had mailed me, I headed North and East deeper into the desert, until spying a flag, I turned East on an unpaved route on a huge dry lake bed.
Earlier in the summer of 1992, I met Gary Snyder at the Squaw Valley Writers Conference, “Art of the Wild.” When he learned I was a graduate student in English at the University of Nevada Reno, he encouraged me to visit the Black Rock Desert. At the time, I was already intending on going there to attend some sort of event my friends from my graduate school days at UC Santa Cruz had invited me to, something called “Burning Man.” Larry Harvey started the event at Baker Beach in San Francisco in 1986 with the burning of a large wooden effigy to mark the end of his marriage. When Burning Man teamed up with the San Francisco Cacophony Society in 1989, the event quickly grew too big for that jurisdiction. In 1990, a gathering was held at the beach, but the burn of the Man was moved to BLM land in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada some two to three hours from Reno and at an elevation of nearly 4,000’ above sea level.
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I still wasn’t quite sure what Burning Man was. But I didn’t care:
the materials my friends had sent me–full of language play and creativity, describing the art, workshops, music, and giant man that would get burned on the last night–all this excited me. Actually, I would have gone to the Black Rock Desert just to camp with my friends. I’d just ended my marriage with my husband, Read more…
Burning Man 2013: Coming Right Up!
Burning Man 2013 is coming right up! In fact, six weeks from today, on Sunday August 25 the gates open and the people will flood in claiming real estate and creating camps from 2am-10pm–the streets, that is!
And once again, I will be there–but this year, I will be conducting some research for my doctorate.
In fact, instead of dreaming and posting about Burning Man, I should be writing my paper that’s due tomorrow about how to do phenomenological research at Burning Man and preparing for a meeting with my field work advisor!
What’s phenomenological you ask? Phenomenology is “the descriptive science of consciousness” or as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy puts it, “the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.”
Huh? How about this from Maurice Meleau-Ponty: “Phenomenology is the study of essences” or the shape, the sensual description.
“Everything that I know about the world, even through science,” wrote Merleau-Ponty, “I know from the perspective that is my own or from an experience of the world” (p. xxii). Merleau-Ponty suggests we’re doing phenomenology all the time—that is, if we’re seeking to experience the “deep shape” of our experiences. Sound like any Burners YOU know?
As we gear up for this year’s playa adventure, stay tuned for more Burning Man posts with videos, stories, tips, and tricks from this long-time Burner! But to get us in the mood and to inspire us to get our gear on, here’s a 2012 video from a Burgin (Burning Man virgin).
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