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                                 November   5, 2007

Questioning Burning Man:
                                                   MUSICAL_CURATORS

    If Burning Man is an "experiment",
    then what is the hypothesis?


    What are you trying to prove?
    What has been proved?


                          Is it a matter of experimenting with 'designs
                          for living'?  What would be the next refinement
                          in the designs?



                  Many of these questions
                  the burners appear to be
                  trying to answer in one
                  way or another.


                  Spread the fire:

                  The "regionals":
                  satellite events.                 Last year's
                                                    focus on
                  Black Rock Arts Foundation,       carbon
                  bringing the art                  indulgences.
                  to a wider audience.



     I think that Harvey and co are
     perhaps uncomfortable with the
     rigid separation between Black
     Rock and commerce, and are looking
     for some sort of compromise, some
     sort of hybrid.

       Hence this last year's
       silly attempts at
       green product demos,      The Green Fest does this
       with names and logos      already without the prudery.
       prohibited.

                                     Next step: the distinction
                                     between advertisement and
                                     underwriting made in the
                                     radio broadcasting world,
                                     with all the attendant
                                     weaselly waffling, pushing
                                     limits of what can be
                                     called "underwriting".


         RULING_OUT_RULERS




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