Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945–2022)
Author of T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
About the Author
Peter Lamborn Wilson has traveled and worked in India and Persia, including Iranian Kurdistan (1968-1980), where he studied the historical and mystical dimensions of Sufism with many great Sufi masters. In the 1980s, he produced a series of biweekly radio broadcasts known as the Moorish Orthodox show more Radio Crusade on WBAI-FM (NYC). The author of more than 60 books and monographs, he lives in the Hudson Valley. show less
Works by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Shower of Stars: The Initiatic Dream in Sufism and Taoism (Autonomedia Book Series) (1996) 38 copies
Orgies of the Hemp Eaters: Cuisine, Slang, Literature and Ritual of Cannabis Culture (2004) 16 copies
Ayahuasca and Shamanism: Michael Taussig interviewed by Peter Lamborn Wilson (Exit 18 Pamphlet) (2002) — Interviewer — 7 copies
Cross-Dressing in the Anti-Rent War 4 copies
Weaver of tales: Persian picture rugs = Persische Bildteppiche : geknupfte Mythen (German Edition) (1980) — Author — 4 copies
The American Revolution as a Gigantic Real Estate Scam: And Other Essays in Lost/Found History (2019) 3 copies
A ruota libera: Miseria del lettore di TAZ : autocritica dell'ideologia underground (Contatti) (Italian Edition) (1996) 3 copies
UTOPIES PIRATES - CORSAIRES MAURES ET RENEGADOS D'EUROP (ECLAT POCHE) (French Edition) (2017) 2 copies
Sobre a Anarquia, Guerra da Informação, Fé Midiática de Fim de Século, Ataque Oculto às Instituições 2 copies
Anarchisme Ontologique 2 copies
Escapism 2 copies
Radio Sermonettes 2 copies
Hashisheen : the end of law [sound recording] — Editor — 2 copies
Tong Aesthetics 1 copy
The Utopian Blues 1 copy
Against "Legalization" 1 copy
Jihad Revisited 1 copy
Notes on Play 1 copy
NoGoZone 1 copy
Endarkenment Manifesto 1 copy
"Liquor and Weed For Him Were Bardic Fuel"--Peter Lamborn Wilson's Obituary for Robert Anton Wilson 1 copy
Post-Anarchism Anarchy 1 copy
Permanent TAZs 1 copy
Moorish Mail-Order Mysticism 1 copy
Sijil of the Fatimid Order 1 copy
Moorish Tag Day Update 1 copy
The Radio Sermonettes 1 copy
The Information War 1 copy
Boundary Violations 1 copy
The Criminal Bee 1 copy
Crisis of Meaning 1 copy
Islam and Eugenics 1 copy
Primitives and Extropians 1 copy
Moorish Weather Report 1 copy
The Obelisk 1 copy
Obsessive Love 1 copy
Overcoming Tourism 1 copy
The Palimpsest 1 copy
The Periodic Autonomous Zone 1 copy
Pastoral Letter: A Fragment 1 copy
Ayahuasca Reading 1 copy
Iblis, the black light 1 copy
Turisti i teroristi 1 copy
Poetycki terroryzm 1 copy
Religion & Révolution 1 copy
Le terrorisme poétique 1 copy
All’ombra delle macchine malate: Immediatismo. Per una critica radicale dei media (Italian Edition) 1 copy
Irish Soma 1 copy
Fool's Day 1 copy
Somali Pirates 1 copy
Tombeau for L 1 copy
Life is Not a Machine 1 copy
Letter: Mrs. Ludd. Poems 1 copy
Domestication 1 copy
The Alchemy of Luddism 1 copy
Secrets of the Assassins 1 copy
Media-Space! Opening Speech 1 copy
Associated Works
At the Table of the Grail: Magic and the Use of the Imagination (1984) — Contributor, some editions; Contributor, some editions — 107 copies
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Contributor — 44 copies
Magpie Reveries: The Iconographic Mandalas of James Koehnline (1990) — Introduction, some editions — 11 copies
Kings of Love: History and Poetry of the Ni'Matullahi Sufi Order of Iran (1979) — some editions — 5 copies
Science Fiction Eye #08, Winter 1991 — Contributor — 1 copy
Science Fiction Eye #07, August 1990 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Bey, Hakim (pseud.)
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He was also so popular as a political philosopher for a while, for coining terms like TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone), that Italian political thinkers published a bk of all Stalin quotes & published it as being by Bey/Wilson in Italy - apprently to as much critical acclaim as all of 'Bey/Wilson''s other bks. Their point? To show what uncritical idiots his readership was. At one point these same Italians even approached me for advice about who an appropriate English-language political writer wd be for writing another fake Bey/Wilson bk. I defended Bey/Wilson b/c I'd never personally had any bad experiences w/ him &, perhaps also, b/c this bk is so articulately written & full of ideas that I agree w/.
Let it be known that I have no idea whether Bey's ever had sex w/ young boys. Personally, I think providing kids w/ the most trauma-free upbringing is best & that that includes leaving them alone sexually. However, it seems to me that I've know at least a few gay men who had sex w/ adults when they were children & who seem to think the experience was fine from their adult perspective. So let them speak for themselves. On the other hand, I've never known a woman who had sex w/ an adult as a child who wasn't traumatized by it. Those reports alone are enuf to make me extremely wary.
But back to "Chaos". Here's a relevant sample from chapter 11: "Crime":
"Justice cannot be obtained under any Law - action in accord with spontaneous nature, action which is just, can not be defined by dogma. The crimes advocated in these broadsheets cannot be committed against self or other but only against the mordant crystallization of Ideas into structures of poisonous Thrones & Dominations.
That is, not crimes against nature or humanity but crimes by legal fiat. Sooner or later the uncovering & unveiling of self/nature transmogrifies a person into a brigand - like stepping into another world then returning to this one to discover you've been declared a traitor, heretic, exile."… (more)