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Biography

Peter Lamborn Wilson (born 1945) (pseudonym Hakim Bey ), is an United States|American political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopia s. He is an anarchist associated with the post-left anarchy tendency and individualist anarchism ."People who think that they know our politics, who know that we are individualists (or even worse, “neo-individualists”), will no doubt be shocked to discover us taking an interest in the IWW...The Mackay Society, of which Mark & I are active members, is devoted to the anarchism of Max Stirner , Benjamin Tucker|Benj. Tucker & John Henry Mackay ...As “individualists” moreover we have good reason to appreciate the IWW concept of the union. Stirner — contrary to the belief of those who have not actually read his book — spoke approvingly of a “Union of Unique Ones” (we prefer this translation to “Union of Egoists”), in which all members would reach for individual goals through common interests. He suggested that the workers had the most to gain by embracing this notion, & that if the productive class were to organize on such a basis it would prove irresistible. (The prejudice against Stirner, by the way, can be traced to Marx & Engels, who considered him potentially even more dangerous than Bakunin, & wrote their biggest book to destroy his influence.)...The Mackay Society, incidentally, represents a little-known current of individualist thought which never cut its ties with revolutionary labor. Dyer Lum, Ezra & Angela Haywood represent this school of thought; Jo Labadie, who wrote for Tucker’s Liberty, made himself a link between the american “plumb-line” anarchists, the “philosophical” individualists, & the syndicalist or communist branch of the movement; his influence reached the Mackay Society through his son, Laurance. Like the Italian Stirnerites (who influenced us through our late friend Enrico Arrigoni|E. Arrigoni ) we support all anti-authoritarian currents, despite their apparent contradictions. Why? Because we feel that some realization of personal liberty is possible even in the very act of struggling for it. "

Life and work

Bey's early work is described in the translator's biography of one of his earliest works:

After studying at Columbia University , he did extensive traveling in the Middle East , Afghanistan , Pakistan , India and Nepal . He studied Tantra in West Bengal and visited many Sufi shrines and masters. In 1971 he undertook research on the Nimatullahi|Ni'matullahi funded by the Marsden Foundation of New York.Fakhruddin 'Iraqi: Divine Flashes , page viii. Paulist Press, 1983.

This research was the basis of Bey's book Kings of Love . The biography continues:

During 1974 and 1975 he was consultant in London and Tehran for the World of Islam Festival . In 1974 he became director of English language publications at the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy in Tehran under Seyyed Hossein Nasr , and he studied, worked with, and published books by Nasr, Toshihiko Izutsu , Henry Corbin and others. He was editor of Sophia Perennis , the Journal of the IIAP.

Bey left Iran during the Iranian Revolution|Islamic Revolution . In the 1980s, his ideas evolved from a kind of René Guénon|Guénonist Traditionalist School|neo-traditionalism to a synthesis of anarchism and Situationist International|Situationist ideas with heterodox Sufism and Neopaganism , describing his ideas as "anarchist ontology " or "immediatism". In the past he has worked with the not-for-profit publishing project Autonomedia , in Brooklyn, New York.

In addition to his writings on anarchism and Temporary Autonomous Zone s, Bey has written essays on such diverse topics as Tong traditions, the utopian Charles Fourier , the fascist Gabriele D'Annunzio , alleged connections between Sufism and ancient Celt ic culture, Nazar ila'l-murd|sacred pederasty in the Sufi tradition ,Wilson, Peter Lambourn. Contemplation of the Unbearded - The Rubaiyyat of Awhadoddin Kermani. Paidika , Vol.3, No.4, 1995. technology and Luddism , and Amanita muscaria use in ancient Ireland .

Bey's poetic texts and poems have appeared in: P.A.N. ; Panthology One, Two, and Three; Ganymede ; Exquisite Corpse (magazine)|Exquisite Corpse ; and the various Acolyte Reader paperbacks. Many of these poems, including the 'Sandburg' series, are collected in the as-yet unpublished DogStar volume. Currently his works can be found regularly in publications like Fifth Estate (periodical)|Fifth Estate and the NYC-based First of the Month .

He has also published at least one novel, The Chronicles of Qamar: Crowstone .

Bey, especially because of his Temporary Autonomous Zone|TAZ work, has often been embraced by rave subculture, as ravers have identified the experience and occasions of raves as part of the tradition of "Temporary Autonomous Zones" that Bey outlines, particularly the " free party " or teknival scene. Bey has been supportive of the rave connection, while remarking in an interview, "The ravers were among my biggest readers... I wish they would rethink all this techno stuff — they didn’t get that part of my writing." Brooklyn Rail , July 2004

In an interview with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford in The Brooklyn Rail , Bey has said on the formation of Green Hermeticism:

Criticism

In Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm , Murray Bookchin included Bey's work in what he called " lifestyle anarchism ", which he criticised for tendencies towards mysticism , occultism , and irrationalism .Bookchin, Murray. Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism (1995). AK Press : Stirling . ISBN 978-1-873176-83-2. (pp. 20-26) Bey did not respond publicly. Bob Black wrote a rejoinder to Bookchin in Anarchy after Leftism .

Bibliography

The Winter Calligraphy of Ustad Selim, & Other Poems (1975) (Ipswich, England) ISBN 0-903880-05-9

Science and Technology in Islam (1976) (with Leonard Harrow )

Traditional Modes of Contemplation & Action (1977) (editor, with Yusuf Ibish )

Nasir-I Khusraw: 40 Poems from the Divan (1977) (translator and editor, with Gholam Reza Aavani ) ISBN 0-87773-730-4

DIVAN (1978) (poems, London/Tehran)

Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order of Iran (1978) (translator and editor, with Nasrollah Pourjavady ; Tehran)

Angels (1980, 1994) ISBN 0-500-11017-4 (abridged edition: ISBN 0-500-81044-3)

Weaver of Tales: Persian Picture Rugs (1980) (with Karl Schlamminger )

Loving Boys: Semiotext(e) Special (1980) (editor as Hakim Bey; Semiotext(e) (New York))

Divine Flashes (1982) (by Fakhruddin 'Iraqi , translated and introduced with William Chittick|William C. Chittick ; Paulist Press (Mahwah, New Jersey)) ISBN 0-8091-2372-X

Crowstone: The Chronicles of Qamar (1983) (as Hakim )

CHAOS: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism (1985) (as Hakim Bey; Grim Reaper Press (Weehawken, New Jersey))

Semiotext(e) USA (1987) (co-editor, with Jim Fleming )

Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy (1988) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 0-936756-15-2

The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry (1988) (translator and editor, with Nasrollah Pourjavady) ISBN 0-933999-65-8

Semiotext(e) SF (1989) (co-editor, with Rudy Rucker and Robert Anton Wilson )

Temporary Autonomous Zone|TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (1991) (as Hakim Bey; incorporates full text of CHAOS ) ISBN 0-936756-76-4

The Universe: A Mirror of Itself (1992? ) (Xexoxial Editions (La Farge, Wisconsin))

Immediatism (1992, 1994) (as Hakim Bey; originally published as Radio Sermonettes ) ISBN 1-873176-42-2

''Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics (1993) (as Hakim Bey; Xexoxial Editions (La Farge, Wisconsin))

Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (1993) (City Lights Books (San Francisco)) ISBN 0-87286-275-5

The Little Book of Angel Wisdom (1993, 1997) ISBN 1-85230-436-7 ISBN 1-86204-048-6

O Tribe That Loves Boys: The Poetry of Abu Nuwas (1993) (translator and editor, as Hakim Bey) ISBN 90-800857-3-1

Pirate utopia|Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs and European Renegadoes (1995, 2003) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 1-57027-158-5

Millennium (1996) (as Hakim Bey; Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York) and Garden of Delight (Dublin, Ireland)) ISBN 1-57027-045-7

"Shower of Stars" Dream & Book: The Initiatic Dream in Sufism and Taoism (1996) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 1-57027-036-8

Escape from the Nineteenth Century and Other Essays (1998) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 1-57027-073-2

Wild Children (1998) (co-editor, with Dave Mandl )

Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in the City & the World (1999) (co-editor, with Bill Weinberg ) ISBN 1-57027-092-9

Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma (1999) ISBN 0-87286-326-3

Temporary Autonomous Zone|TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, Second Edition (2003) (as Hakim Bey; incorporates full text of CHAOS and Aimless Wanderings ; Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 1-57027-151-8

Orgies Of The Hemp Eaters (2004) (co-editor as Hakim Bey with Abel Zug) ISBN 1-57027-143-7

rain queer (2005) ( Farfalla Press (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 0-9766341-1-2

Gothick Institutions (2005) ISBN 0-9770049-0-2

Green Hermeticism: Alchemy and Ecology ; (with Christopher Bamford and Kevin Townley , Lindisfarne (2007)) ISBN 1-58420-049-9

Black Fez Manifesto (2008) ISBN 978-1-57027-187-8

Ec(o)logues (2011) ISBN 978-1-58177-115-2

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