BURNING MAN, PANDEMIC EDITION
What happens when a deadly virus strikes the mass gathering of Burning Man and 80,000 revelers are trapped in a zone of sacrifice to save the world? That’s the question my screenwriting partner and CIIS colleague Alex Burger and I have been thinking and writing about for the past three years. How might societies adapt and change to save humanity from extinction? What is the weird feedback loop between fiction and reality?
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Carolyn Cooke is the author of the novel Daughters of the Revolution and two collections of short stories. She teaches in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing MFA Program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
