Temporary Autonomous Zone
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone is a book by the anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson). It was published in 1991 by Autonomedia and in 2011 by Pacific Publishing Studio (ISBN 978-1-4609-0177-9). It is composed of three sections, "Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism", "Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy" and "The Temporary Autonomous Zone".
Themes
[edit ]The book describes the socio-political tactic of creating temporary spaces that elude formal structures of control.[1]
Bey later expanded the concept beyond the "temporary", saying, "We've had to consider the fact that not all existing autonomous zones are 'temporary.' Some are ... more-or-less 'permanent.'"[2] Hence, the concept of the permanent autonomous zone.
The titular section is divided up into the following subsections:
- Pirate Utopias
- Waiting for the Revolution
- The Psychotopology of Everyday Life
- The Net and the Web
- "Gone to Croatan"
- Music as an Organizational Principle
- The Will To Power as Disappearance
- Ratholes in the Babylon of Information
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Gray, Chris (2001). Cyborg Citizen. New York: Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 0-415-91978-9.
- ^ Hakim Bey (Winter 1994). "Permanent TAZs". Dream Time Village. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
Further reading
[edit ]- Anders, Freia (March 1, 2016). "Creating Temporary Autonomous Zones". In Fahlenbrach, Kathrin; Klimke, Martin; Scharloth, Joachim (eds.). Protest Cultures: A Companion. Berghahn Books. pp. 406–413. ISBN 978-1-78533-149-7.
- Marcus, Ezra (July 1, 2020). "In the Autonomous Zones". The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331.