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<p>The Burning Man Festival is a weeklong spasm of radical self-expression held annually just before Labor Day since 1986. In late August 2003, more than 33,000 participants converged in Nevada's Black Rock Desert for this counterculture event staged as an experiment in temporary community.</p> <p>The participants gather to rid themselves of the conventional structures of their life and to "sample" the alternatives in hundreds of theme camps. The climax of the festival comes when attendees erupt into cheers and applause at the burning of a forty-foot-tall human effigy described as "part pre-technological idol and part post-technological puppet."</p> <p><i>AfterBurn</i> contributor Erik Davis writes of the festival, "Ironic and blasphemous, intoxicated and lewd, Burning Man's ADD theater of the absurd might even be said to embody the slap-happy nihilism of postmodern culture itself."</p> <p>CounterCulture series editor David Farber summarizes the significance of the event: "[Burning Man is] spiritual discovery, utopian experiment, artistic spectacle, participatory democracy, do-it-yourself anarchism, and communitarian adventure." <i>AfterBurn</i> features ten essayists each addressi

Author

Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen

Publisher

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826333995

Subjects

Art, Social Science, Science

Rating

4.9 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14