Burnography

A chronology of my Burning Man related output.

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• St John, G, 2023. "Transfestive Horizons: An Introduction." Journal of Festive Studies # 5: 11-40.

• St John, G, and Vitos, B. 2023. “Burnerverse: The Borderland, Midburn, and the Global Event Culture of Burning Man,” Journal of Festive Studies # 5: 41-67.

• Vitos, B, G. St John & F. Gauthier. 2022. “Burning Man in Europe: Burns, Culture and Transformation.” In Maria Nita & Jeremy Kidwell eds., Festival Cultures: Mapping New Fields in the Arts and Social Sciences. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 87-114.

• St John, G. 2022. “Sherpagate’: Art, Tourists and Drama at Burning Man.” In Maria Nita & Jeremy Kidwell eds., Festival Cultures: Mapping New Fields in the Arts and Social Sciences. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 169-193.

• St John, G and Botond Vitos. 2021. "Wurst Storm Rising: The Dadaist Legacy of Burning Man." Journal of Festive Studies, 3.1: 177—199.

• St John, G. 2020. "Ephemeropolis: Burning Man, Transformation and Heterotopia." Journal of Festive Studies, 2.1: 289-322.

• St John, G. 2020. “Dramatic Heterotopia: The Participatory Spectacle of Burning Man.” In Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch and Daan Wesselman eds, Interrupting Globalisation: Heterotopia in the Twenty-First Century, 178–194. New York: Routledge.

• St John, G. 2019. "At Home in the Big Empty: Burning Man and the Playa Sublime." Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 13 (3): 286–313.

• St John, G. 2019. "The Cultural Heroes of Do-ocracy: Burning Man, Catharsis on the Mall and Caps of Liberty." Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 15(1).

• St John, G. 2018. "The Big Empty." Aeon 10 Sep.

• St John, G. 2018. "Civilised Tribalism: Burning Man, Event-Tribes and Maker Culture." Cultural Sociology. 12(1): 3–21. 

• St John, G. 2017. "Blazing Grace: The Gifted Culture of Burning Man." NANO: New American Notes Online, 11 (July), Special issue (Economies of the Gift in an Age of Austerity) edited by Jennie Stearns and J.P. Craig. 

• St John, G. 2017. "Charms War: Dance Camps and Sound Cars at Burning Man." In Graham St John, ed., Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures, 219–244. New York: Bloomsbury.

• St John, G. & Gauthier, F. 2015. "Burning Man's Gift Driven Event Culture." Revue du MAUSS (24 Jan).

• St John, G. 2014. "Begoggled in the Theater of Awe: Electronic Dance Music Culture at Burning Man." In Samantha Krukowski, ed., Playa Dust: Collected Stories from Burning Man, 144–159. London: Black Dog Publishing.

• St John, G. 2014. "Researching the Burning Man Diaspora." Burning Man Journal  (28 Feb). 

• St John, G. 2009. "Noon, Black Rock City." Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 1(1).

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More Burnographic content

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Before the great confinement of 2020, a long post completed early that year "Jumping the Shark? The Enigma of Burning Man" was published on Medium.

 

In February 2020, Berlin's CTM festival afforded me an opportunity to present Burner culture as superliminal.

 

Of interest to Vibe-O-Meter enthusiasts, in February 2022 Stuart Mangrum chatted with me about my research on Burning Man live.

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