Neil Shister

Radical Ritual (eBook, ePUB)

How Burning Man Changed the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Neil Shister's book skillfully traces the evolution of Burning Man and provides rare insights into how this cultural phenomenon is changing the world." Michael Mikel, founding board member of the Burning Man Project Written from Neil Shister's perspective as a journalist, student of American culture, and sixtime participant in Burning Man, Radical Ritual presents the event as vitally, historically important. Shister contends that Burning Man is a significant player in the avantgarde, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man's contribution to this new order is postmodern, a fusion of sixties humanism with stateoftheart Silicon Valley wizardry. Shister is not alone in his opinion. In 2018, the Smithsonian dedicated its entire Renwick Gallery, located next door to the White House, to an exhibition of Burning Man art and culture. The festival intertwines conservative and progressive ideas. On one hand it is a celebration of selfreliance, personal accountability, and individual freedom; on the other hand it is based on strong values of inclusion, consensual decision making, and centered, collaborative endeavor. In a wonderful mix of narrative storytelling and reportage, Radical Ritual discusses how Burning Man has impacted the art world, disaster relief, urban renewal, the utilization of renewable energy, and even the corporate governance of Google. The story concludes with the sudden death in April 2018 of Larry Harvey, now renowned as the philosophical epicenter of the movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640092204
• Artikelnr.: 56832846

Autorenporträt

Neil Shister has been a correspondent with Time, television critic for the Miami Herald, and editor of Atlanta magazine. He's taught at Hampshire College, Boston University, and The George Washington University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Côte d'Ivoire (19681970). He lives in Washington, D.C. with wife, Cait, and son, William.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: In the Beginning
Chapter 1: The Creation Myth
Chapter 2: Gravitational Waves
Chapter 3: "A New Moment to Gather"
Part II: Chaos and Control: The Burning Man Experience
Chapter 4: One Man's Burn
Chapter 5: "On Our Best Days We're Finders"
Part III: Burning Man's Utopian Vision
Chapter 7: Art as a Trojan Horse
Chapter 8: Re-Sourcing Civic Engagement
Chapter 9: "All That Is Fixed and Fundamental In Human Nature"
Epilogue: Scarcity and Abundance