Peter Lamborn Wilson

Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey, 1945, New York) is an American political writer, essayist and poet. He is known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), based on a historical review of pirate utopias. After studying at Columbia University, he traveled through the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. He was a consultant for the World Islam Festival, London and Tehran. He worked at the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy in Tehran, leaving the country during the Islamic Revolution. [1]

Works

• editor, with Jim Fleming, Semiotext(e) USA, 1987.

• editor, with Rudy Rucker and Robert Anton Wilson, Semiotext(e) SF, 1989.

• Hakim Bey, T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, New York: Autonomedia, 1991, viii+141 pp; 2nd ed., new pref., New York: Autonomedia, 2003, xii+147 pp.
  • T.A.Z. Die Temporäre Autonome Zone, trans. Jürgen Schneider, Amsterdam/Berlin: ID-Archiv, 1994, 161 pp. (German)
  • T.A.Z.: Zone Temporaneamente Autonome, trans. Syd MIGX, Milan: ShaKe, 1995; 2007, 182 pp. (Italian)
  • TAZ: zone autonome temporaire, trans. Christine Tréguier, Paris: l'Éclat, 1997, 90 pp. (French)
  • TAZ: ezor oṭonomi era, trans. Liat Sabin, Tel Aviv: Resling, 2003, 107 pp. (Hebrew)
  • Dočasná autonomní zóna, trans. Blumfeld, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2004, 88 pp. [2] (Czech)
  • Dočasná autonomní zóna, trans. Yosef, 2007. (Czech)

• Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs and European Renegadoes, New York: Autonomedia, 1995; repr., 2003.

• more

Links

• http://www.t-h-e-n-e-t.com/html/_film/pers/_pers_PeterLWilson.htm