Burning Man
Black Rock City, California
Collective / Barter
Pop-Up / Art Colony
Black Rock City, California
Collective / Barter
Pop-Up / Art Colony
1 Center Camp 2 Walk-In Camping Area
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Begun as a solstice bonfire in 1986, Burning Man appears as, and markets itself as, the ultimate confluence of cyberculture and counterculture, the projective and the regressive, forward looking and backward turning. In this space the hacker is the new hippie and Silicon Valley Utopianism is the natural legacy of a movement based on self-sufficiency and liberty.
Fred Turner referred to Burning Man as a cultural infrastructure, an ideological scaffolding on which socialized labor and new forms of manufacturing depend. “Burning Man can be seen as a manifestation of the sentimentality and spirit of the Bay Area, compressed into an intense, week-long ordeal: techies, hippies, individualists, creatives/artists and progressives all living in close proximity, thrown together into an uncontrolled mix. A giant social experiment of sorts, organized into a ceremonial ritual, conducted year after year.”
It is a space of ritualistic regression, voluntary primitivism, or extreme escapism. It concretizes the “commons-based peer production” and enforces the collaborative socialized labor necessitated by tech companies. Much of what is codified in the Burning Man Principles is reflected in corporate culture.
Begun as a solstice bonfire in 1986, Burning Man appears as, and markets itself as, the ultimate confluence of cyberculture and counterculture, the projective and the regressive, forward looking and backward turning. In this space the hacker is the new hippie and Silicon Valley Utopianism is the natural legacy of a movement based on self-sufficiency and liberty.
Fred Turner referred to Burning Man as a cultural infrastructure, an ideological scaffolding on which socialized labor and new forms of manufacturing depend. “Burning Man can be seen as a manifestation of the sentimentality and spirit of the Bay Area, compressed into an intense, week-long ordeal: techies, hippies, individualists, creatives/artists and progressives all living in close proximity, thrown together into an uncontrolled mix. A giant social experiment of sorts, organized into a ceremonial ritual, conducted year after year.”
It is a space of ritualistic regression, voluntary primitivism, or extreme escapism. It concretizes the “commons-based peer production” and enforces the collaborative socialized labor necessitated by tech companies. Much of what is codified in the Burning Man Principles is reflected in corporate culture.
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