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Burning Man and Philosophy: Love in the Desert
AndPhilosophy.Com: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series (2014)
  • Michael Ventimiglia
Abstract
Sometimes you can just feel it. I remember staring at the computer, contemplating this ridiculous trek to the middle of the desert, a place devoid of both animal and vegetable because of the extraordinary preponderance of a particular mineral: a flight across country, a scramble in Reno to get everything one might need for a week’s survival  (water, food, goggles, tuxedo jacket . . . ), hours of downtown traffic in the middle of nowhere as scores of trucks, cars, and RVs funnel down to a one-lane exit from civilization. All for one week on an ancient lake bed, a salt flat, where, apparently, a bunch of hippies play bongos for a week and dance around a wooden man on fire. “You should go,” my ex-wife said. I will always love her for that.
Keywords
  • Black Rock City,
  • Black Rock Desert,
  • Nevada,
  • Festivals,
  • Gatherings,
  • Faculty,
  • Professors,
  • Philosophy of love,
  • Agape,
  • Christian love,
  • Eroticism,
  • Beauty,
  • Eros,
  • Love of desire,
  • Philia,
  • Love of friendship,
  • Human experience
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 4, 2014
Citation Information
Ventimiglia, M. (2014, June 4). Burning Man and philosophy: Love in the desert. AndPhilosophy.Com: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Retrieved from https://andphilosophy.com/2014/06/04/burning-man-and-philosophy/)