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This article identifies conceptual lacunae, connections, and cross-talk in an interdisciplinary field of research targetting a wide distribution of events that possess an intentionally transformational—or “meta-transformational”—remit.
Graham St John
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Otherwise known as Black Rock City, Burning Man is a remote fire-arts gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert that has catalyzed a global movement. An ephemeral community flowering in a desert, Burning Man is also a cultural proliferation of events that ...
Graham St John, Botond Vitos
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Capitalist Surrealism of Chinese Burning Man
Burning Man, the prototypical transformational event culture, has been described as “a guerrilla war against alienated spectacle and the commodification of the collective imagination.” At the same time, it has spawned spectacular efforts at the ...
Ian Rowen
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Our subject is the legacy of Dada implicit to the Burning Man phenomenon. Animate in the provocative output of fin-de-siècle French Symbolist writer and puppeteer Alfred Jarry, and filtered through the antics of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, Dada ...
Graham St John, Botond Vitos
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Case Report: Hidden Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Oral Somatic Symptom Disorder
Background: Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a common condition of predominant oral pain without evident cause, that maxillofacial surgeons and otolaryngologists often refer to psychiatrists as somatic symptom disorder.
Takayuki Suga +12 more
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The Case of the Red Extremities
Case Presentation: A 37-year-old man with severe obstructive sleep apnea presented to the emergency department with burning pain, redness and swelling in his hands and feet, worsening for several weeks. Pertinent laboratory studies revealed polycythemia.
Kelechi Abarikwu +2 more
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Foucault’s concept of heterotopia is adapted to comprehend events with intentional transformational agendas. An ephemeral community installed annually in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, Burning Man is an exemplary evental heterotopia.
Graham St John
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Revolutionary Games and repressive tolerance: on the hopes and limits of ludic citizenship
This essay considers examples of boisterous game play, including ludic movement activity and humour in the context of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the USA.
Benjamin Shepard
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Regulation of positive and negative emotion: Effects of sociocultural context
Previous research has demonstrated that the use of emotion regulation strategies can vary by sociocultural context. In a previous study, we reported changes in the use of two different emotion regulation strategies at an annual alternative cultural event,
Sara A. Snyder +4 more
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