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Peter Lamborn Wilson is a political writer, poet, and self-described "anarchist ontologist". He sometimes writes under the name Hakim Bey (which may mean "Mr Judge" in Turkish, and which may or may not have been a name-of-convenience used by other radical writers since the 1970s).
He is reputed to have spent two years in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and seven years in Iran, being forced to flee by the fall of the Shah. He is said to be closely connected with the radical publishing houses Semiotext(e) and ReSearch, in New York.
Among many highly influential essays on Tong traditions and Temporary Autonomous Zones, Bey has written about such figures as the utopian Charles Fourier and the connections between Sufism and ancient Celtic culture. He has also written essays on the nature of sacred pederasty in the Sufi tradition.
He has written the following books and pamphlets:
- CHAOS: The broadsheets of ontological anarchism (1985) (as Hakim Bey)
- Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy (1988) ISBN 0936756152
- TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (1991) (as Hakim Bey) ISBN 0936756764, ISBN 1570271518 -- also available as recorded CD read by author
- Radio Sermonettes (1992) (as Hakim Bey)
- Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics (as Hakim Bey)
- Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (1993) ISBN 0872862755
- Pirate Utopias (1995) ISBN 1570271585
- Immediatism (1996) (as Hakim Bey) ISBN 1873176422
- Millennium (1996) (as Hakim Bey) ISBN 1570270457
- Escape from the Nineteenth Century (1998) ISBN 1570270732
Bey's poetic 'texts' and poems have appeared in: P.A.N.; Panthology One, Two, and Three; Ganymede; Exquisite Corpse; the Nambla Bulletin; the various Acolyte Reader paperbacks. Many of these poems, including the 'Sandburg' series, are collected in the as-yet unpublished DogStar volume.
Bey's translations include a volume of the poems of Abu Nuwas, O Tribe That Loves Boys. He has also published at least one novel, Crowstone (Coltsfoot Press, 1983).
External links
- Many of his books and articles are available online here: The Writings of Hakim Bey (http://www.hermetic.com/bey/)
- Most of Wilson's political books are published by Autonomedia (http://www.autonomedia.org/)
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