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“Poetic Terrorism
WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone & make them happy. Pick someone at random & convince them they're the heir to an enormous, useless & amazing fortune--say 5000 square miles of Antarctica, or an aging circus elephant, or an orphanage in Bombay, or a collection of alchemical mss. ...
Bolt up brass commemorative plaques in places (public or private) where you have experienced a revelation or had a particularly fulfilling sexual experience, etc.
Go naked for a sign.
Organize a strike in your school or workplace on the grounds that it does not satisfy your need for indolence & spiritual beauty.
Graffiti-art loaned some grace to ugly subways & rigid public monuments--PT-art can also be created for public places: poems scrawled in courthouse lavatories, small fetishes abandoned in parks & restaurants, Xerox-art under windshield-wipers of parked cars, Big Character Slogans pasted on playground walls, anonymous letters mailed to random or chosen recipients (mail fraud), pirate radio transmissions, wet cement...
The audience reaction or aesthetic-shock produced by PT ought to be at least as strong as the emotion of terror-- powerful disgust, sexual arousal, superstitious awe, sudden intuitive breakthrough, dada-esque angst--no matter whether the PT is aimed at one person or many, no matter whether it is "signed" or anonymous, if it does not change someone's life (aside from the artist) it fails.
PT is an act in a Theater of Cruelty which has no stage, no rows of seats, no tickets & no walls. In order to work at all, PT must categorically be divorced from all conventional structures for art consumption (galleries, publications, media). Even the guerilla Situation

Only the dead are

The Molehill Report June 2022: A short critical obituary of Peter Lamborn Wilson, aka Hakim Bey.

The anarchist author of “Temporary Autonomous Zone” and many other books died of a heart attack on May 22 in his house in NY state. An influential figure on the free party networks, more as a creator of buzzwords than as a theoretician. We zoom back to the shortcomings of his concepts.

Christoph Fringeli: Welcome to episode 6 of the Molehill Report. In this episode we have a short critical obituary of Peter Lamborn Wilson aka Hakim Bey who died last month. He was the author of the influential Temporary Autonomous Zone.

It’s boiling hot in Berlin um so I don’t know, trying to focus my my ideas a bit…

Music: Christoph Fringeli & the Invisible SP: Pirate Utopia (from Slaughter Politics, Praxis 21, 1999)

CF: On May 22nd the author Peter Lamborn Wilson also known as Hakim Bey died. Born in 1945 he was something of a mystical hippie Anarchist with many books to his two names. He’s best known as the author of the text the Temporary Autonomous Zone or TAZ first published in 1991, a book with a considerable influence on the underground festival and party scenes.

I first came across Lamborn Wilson as an editor at Semiotext(e), then read the TAZ, then Pirate Utopias, a book about utopian pirate communities in the Caribbean from the 16th to the 19th century which he wrote with his real name, and which struck me more as a work of fiction than history writing but it had some inspiring moments in there.

The following book written and published again under the pen name Hakim Bay, Millennium from 1996, was just plain bad and politically unacceptable and I lost interest in the author. In the meantime however the influence of the TAZ concept seemed to grow.

The irony that it was so well received in circles connected with electronic music was not lost on the author himself, since he was quite anti-tech

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Peter Lamborn Wilson

Peter Lamborn Wilson (pseudonym Hakim Bey; 1945 – May 22, 2022) was an American anarchist author, primarily known for advocating the concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones.

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Immediatism (AK Press: 1994)

For art, the intervention of capital always signals a further degree of mediation. To say that art is commodified is to say that a mediation, or standing-in-between, has occurred, & that this betweenness amounts to a split, & that this split amounts to "alienation". Improv music played by friends at home is less "alienated" than music played "live" at the Met, or music played through media (whether PBS or MTV or Walkman). In fact, an argument could be made that music distributed free or at cost on cassette via mail, is less alienated than live music played at some huge We Are The World spectacle or Las Vegas niteclub, even though the latter is live music played to a live audience (or at least so it appears), while the former is recorded music consumed by distant & even anonymous listeners.