{"id":372365,"date":"2021-03-29T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/?p=372365"},"modified":"2021-03-29T13:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T17:39:30","slug":"burning-man-retitles-2021-theme-due-to-implicit-biases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2021\/03\/burning-man-retitles-2021-theme-due-to-implicit-biases\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man retitles 2021 theme due to &#8216;implicit biases&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The always forward-thinking <a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/burning-man\/\">Burning Man<\/a> has officially rescinded its 2021 theme, &#8220;Terra Incognita,&#8221; due to the theme&#8217;s insensitive connotations. The latin phrase, meaning &#8220;unknown land,&#8221; is traceable back to the Egyptian scholar Ptolemy. Concerns arose about its implicit biases regarding the country&#8217;s colonial history after Burning Man <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.burningman.org\/2021\/03\/philosophical-center\/the-theme\/burning-man-2021-the-great-unknown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued a statement<\/a> announcing the theme and gently urging its attendees to begin planning for August. &#8220;Terra Incognita&#8221; reflects the exploration of undocumented regions; according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term may also apply to mental exploration. However, Burning Man chose to make a modification,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;When we learned the phrase [Terra Incognita] has a colonial history, and it reflected some of our implicit biases and default perspectives, we retitled it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> The official revised Burning Man theme is now &#8220;The Great Unknown.&#8221; The festival board will make an official statement on whether or not the event is happening no later than the end of May, according to the <em>Reno Gazette Journal<\/em>. After a year of isolation and upended human connection, the two themes are to reflect the exploration of a newfangled social landscape. Stuart Mangrum, director of the Philosophical Center of Burning Man Project, wrote,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;This is an invitation to emerge from our collective isolation, to explore the unfamiliar contours of a changed world, and to reimagine ourselves, our community, and our culture in ways that might not have been possible before this period of plague and pause.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep up to date regarding the return to <a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/?s=black+rock+city\">Black Rock City<\/a> throughout the spring and into the summer here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured image: Susan C. Becker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Via: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/journal.burningman.org\/2021\/03\/philosophical-center\/the-theme\/burning-man-2021-the-great-unknown\/\">Burning Man Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a year of social isolation, Burning Man modifies an insensitive theme reflecting a colonial history. 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