If we take the net as a metaphor for that global society then it’s inevitable that Coca-Cola and Disney World will take over. Because that is the one world – if the net retains its anarchic quality, its egalitarianism, its horizontal structure, as opposed to its pyramidical structure, then a plurality of different personhoods are [...]
Posts under ‘Hakim Bey’
Hakim Bey – Temporary Autonomous Zone
Link: Hakim Bey – Temporary Autonomous Zone
Against Multiculturalism
Sometimes i wish Peter Lamborn Wilson didn’t sound so right. But looking around at the state of many societys today this essay still rings very true. The USA was always supposed to be a “melting pot.” Canada, by contrast, calls itself a “mosaic”, which may explain thy Canadians seem to suffer a kind of long-drawn-out [...]
Cybernetics & Entheogenics: From Cyberspace to Neurospace
Another great essay by Peter Lamborn Wilson in which he attempts to bridge the divide between cyberspace and neruo space accelerated with the use of hallucinogenic drugs. The term “Neurospace” I learned from the Kiev artist Vladimir Muzehesky, through Geert Lovink. What I immediately thought he meant by it was a comparison of that space [...]
Hakim Bey / Peter Lamborn Wilson Video
Anarchist Sufi and free thinker extraordinaries Peter Lamborn Wilson talks about TAZ (Temporary autonomous zones) and how he sees the world. Link: Hakim Bey / Peter Lamborn Wilson Video
Seduction of the Cyber Zombies
The following is a great essay on the internet by Hakim Bey : The implied question:—does the Net further the purpose of communicativeness, and can it be used as a tool to “maximize the potential of the emergence” of convivial situations? Or does there exist a “paradoxical counterproductive effect” (as Illich would say)? In other [...]
Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey
The following link is to a full essay called Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey aka Peter Lamborn Wilson. Here is the description from wikipedia : The Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) describes the socio-political tactic of creating temporary space that eludes formal structures of control. The essay uses various historical and philosophical examples, all of [...]
