Hakim Bey - Temporary Autonomous Zone
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Peter Lamborn Wilson — From Wikipedia: Peter Lamborn Wilson (b. New York, 1945) is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, perhaps best known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), based on a historical review of pirate utopias. He sometimes writes under the name Hakim Bey. The pseudonym may or may not have been a name-of-convenience or collective pseudonym used by other radical writers since the 1970s [citation needed] and is a combination of the Arabic word for ‘wise man’ and a last name common in the Moorish Science Temple. Bey, originally a Turkic word for “chieftain,” traditionally applied to the leaders of small tribal groups. In historical accounts, many Turkish, other Turkic and Persian leaders are titled bey, beg or beigh. They are all the same word with the simple meaning of “leader.” Also in Turkish, Hakim means judge and Bey is a generic word for a gentleman (mister) generally used after a name.
Link: Hakim Bey - Temporary Autonomous Zone
Sometimes i wish Peter Lamborn Wilson didn’t sound so right. But looking around at the state of many societys today this essay still rings very true.
The USA was always supposed to be a “melting pot.” Canada, by contrast, calls itself a “mosaic”, which may explain thy Canadians seem to suffer a kind of long-drawn-out and […]
Another great essay by Peter Lamborn Wilson in which he attempts to bridge the divide between cyberspace and neruo space accelerated with the use of hallucinogenic drugs.
The term “Neurospace” I learned from the Kiev artist Vladimir Muzehesky, through Geert Lovink. What I immediately thought he meant by it was a comparison of that space which […]
Anarchist Sufi and free thinker extraordinaries Peter Lamborn Wilson talks about TAZ (Temporary autonomous zones) and how he sees the world.
Link: Hakim Bey / Peter Lamborn Wilson Video
The following is a great essay on the internet by Hakim Bey :
The implied question:—does the Net further the purpose of communicativeness, and can it be used as a tool to “maximize the potential of the emergence” of convivial situations? Or does there exist a “paradoxical counterproductive effect” (as Illich would say)? In other words: […]
The following link is to a full essay called Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey aka Peter Lamborn Wilson. Here is the description from wikipedia :
The Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) describes the socio-political tactic of creating temporary space that eludes formal structures of control. The essay uses various historical and philosophical examples, all of […]