Brief Return from the Wilderness
A series of not-yet-solved laptop problems and deep immersion in the book I have to finish this year have kept me away from this blog, but not necessarily away from Burning Man business. Back in mid-May I gave a well-attended and well-received talk on how Burning Man does, and does not, fit in with anarcho-capitalist thinking at FreedomFest. (One chaparoned young fan of my work at Reason was told that his parents wouldn't appreciate the subject matter of my talk.) I learned that due to a communications snafu, I was mistaken that the BenBella paperback of This is Burning Man would be out this year; in fact, look for it in the summer of 2006. Until then, at least for now, the original hardcover is still available.
This is being written during a quick guerilla strike on a computer from which I can actually blog; the full-on recap of all old reviews will have to wait, but here is a fresh one I recently found, at least one I had not yet linked to from this blog, from the Eugene Weekly. Scroll way down for the review by Kera Abraham. Some excerpts: "for die-hard Burners, Doherty's work might do the event as much justice as a mere book can....he paints a lively picture of Black Rock City as a place of "functional anarchy," where living in the moment is the cardinal rule. In these aspects, Doherty hits a nebulous nail on the head...[The book] details the excruciating nuts and bolts, which hold together an event that feels effortless. And its images illustrate the sheer weirdness of Burning Man: a dirt-surfing dwarf in bondage gear, a mechanical dragon breathing fire into the star-spattered night."
This is being written during a quick guerilla strike on a computer from which I can actually blog; the full-on recap of all old reviews will have to wait, but here is a fresh one I recently found, at least one I had not yet linked to from this blog, from the Eugene Weekly. Scroll way down for the review by Kera Abraham. Some excerpts: "for die-hard Burners, Doherty's work might do the event as much justice as a mere book can....he paints a lively picture of Black Rock City as a place of "functional anarchy," where living in the moment is the cardinal rule. In these aspects, Doherty hits a nebulous nail on the head...[The book] details the excruciating nuts and bolts, which hold together an event that feels effortless. And its images illustrate the sheer weirdness of Burning Man: a dirt-surfing dwarf in bondage gear, a mechanical dragon breathing fire into the star-spattered night."
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