The Very American Phenomenon of the Blank-Slate Utopia
On Burning Man, Walt Disney, and California Forever's Technocratic Pipedream
“It is an American habit to try to solve problems apart from their context.”
— Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon
The sun sets on a mudsoaked Black Rock Desert on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Jonah Page, SF Gate.
Two news stories dominated my attention last week. The first was the shenanigans at Burning Man, that chimeric desert city of around 73,000 people which t…
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