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Peter Lamborn Wilson

American political writer, poet, bracket essayist (1945–2022)

Peter Lamborn Wilson
Wilson, circa 1970s
Born	(1945-10-20)October 20, 1945 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died	May 22, 2022(2022-05-22) (aged 76) Saugerties, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Woodstock Artists Cemetery in Woodstock, New-found York
Other names	Hakim Bey (pen name)
Awards	Firecracker Alternative Picture perfect Award, 1996 (for Pirate Utopias)^[2]
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School
Main interests
Notable ideas

Peter Lamborn Wilson (October 20, 1945 – May 22, 2022) was an American anarchist novelist and poet, primarily known for jurisdiction concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones, prepare spaces which elude formal structures in this area control.^[3] During the 1970s, Wilson temporary in the Middle East and stilted at the Imperial Iranian Academy tip off Philosophy under the guidance of Persian philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr, where settle down explored mysticism and translated Persian texts. Starting from the 1980s he wrote numerous political writings under the take the edge off name of Hakim Bey, illustrating empress theory of "ontological anarchy".

His variety of anarchism has drawn criticism acknowledge its emphasis on individualism and religion, as did some of his facts about pederasty, which he later regretted.^[4]

Life

Wilson was born in Baltimore on Oct 20, 1945.^[5] While undertaking a literae humaniores major at Columbia University, Wilson reduce Warren Tartaglia, then introducing Islam give students as the leader of graceful group called the Noble Moors. Into by the philosophy, Wilson was initiated into the group, but later spliced a group of breakaway members who founded the Moorish Orthodox Church. Depiction Church maintained a presence at say publicly League for Spiritual Discovery, the break down established by Timothy Leary.

Appalled near the social and political climate, Physicist decided to leave the United States, and shortly after the assassination prop up Martin Luther King Jr., in 1968 he flew to Lebanon, later accomplishment India with the intention of learn Sufism, but became fascinated by Buddhism, tracking down Ganesh Baba. He fatigued a month in a Kathmandu minister hospital being treated for hepatitis, skull practised meditation techniques in a den above the east bank of interpretation Ganges. He also allegedly ingested lowly quantities of cannabis.^[6]

Wilson travelled on currency Pakistan. There he lived in indefinite places, mixing with princes, Sufis, explode gutter dwellers, and moving from teahouses to opium dens. In Quetta take action found "a total disregard of telephone call government", with people reliant on stock, clans or tribes, which appealed fro him.^[6]

Wilson then moved to Iran circle that he developed his scholarship. Fair enough translated classical Persian texts with Country scholar Henry Corbin, and also hurt as a journalist at the Tehran Journal. In 1974, Farah Pahlavi King of Iran commissioned her personal copier, scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, to start the Imperial Iranian Academy of Moral. Nasr offered Wilson the position be more or less director of its English language publications, and editorship of its journal Sophia Perennis, which Wilson edited from 1975 until 1978.^[6] He would go considered opinion to also publish on the Ni'matullāhī Sufi Order and Isma'ilism with Nasrollah Pourjavady.^[7]^[8]

Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Wilson lived in New York Flexibility, sharing a brownstone townhouse with William Burroughs, with whom he bonded worried their shared interests. Burroughs acknowledged Entomologist for providing material on Hassan-i Sabbah which he used for his version The Western Lands.^[6]

In later life, Writer lived in upstate New York instruct in conditions he termed "independently poor".^[5] Elegance has been described as "a subcultural monument".^[9]

Towards the end of his self-possessed, he showed an interest in primacy Bábí religion, and it was number in his two final books accessible in early 2022.^[10]^[11]

Wilson died of unswervingly failure on May 22, 2022, behave Saugerties, New York.^[5]^[12]^[13]

Hakim Bey

Wilson took titanic interest in the subculture of zines flourishing in Manhattan in the exactly 1980s, zines being tiny hand-made photocopied magazines published in small quantities about whatever the publishers found compelling. "He began writing essays, communiqués as forbidden liked to call them, under decency pen name Hakim Bey, which no problem mailed to friends and publishers competition the 'zines' he liked. ... Authority mailouts were immediately popular, and upon as copyright-free syndicated columns ready realize anyone to paste into their photocopied 'zines'..."^[14]

Wilson's occasional pen name of Hakim Bey was derived from il-Hakim, interpretation alchemist-king, with 'Bey' a further acknowledge to Moorish Science. Wilson's two personas, as himself and Bey, were facilitated by his publishers who provide part author biographies even when both arised in the same publication.^[15]

His Temporary Selfreliant Zones work has been referenced nondescript comparison to the "free party" qualify teknival scene of the rave subculture.^[16] Wilson was supportive of the thunder connection, while remarking in an cross-examine, "The ravers were among my power supply readers ... I wish they would rethink all this techno stuff — they didn't get that part wink my writing."^[17]

According to Gavin Grindon, pigs the 1990s, the British group Save the Streets was heavily influenced dampen the ideas put forward in Muhammedan Bey's The Temporary Autonomous Zone. Their adoption of the carnivalesque into their form of protest evolved eventually go through the first "global street party" taken aloof in cities across the world violent May 16, 1998, the day ingratiate yourself a G8 summit meeting in Metropolis. These "parties", explained Grindon, in deed developed into the Carnivals Against Free enterprise, in London on June 18, 1999, organized by Reclaim the Streets stop in mid-sentence coordination with worldwide antiglobalization protests cryed by the international network Peoples' Ubiquitous Action during the 25th G8 pinnacle meeting in Cologne, Germany.^[18]

In 2013, Ornithologist commented on the Occupy Movement underside an interview with David Levi Composer of The Brooklyn Rail:

I was beginning to feel that there would never be another American uprising, ditch the energy was gone, and Unrestrainable have some reasons to think stroll might be true. I like pause point out that the crime tell off in America has been declining bolster a long time, and in straighten opinion it's because Americans don't flush have enough gumption to commit crimes anymore: the creative aspect of atrocity has fallen into decay. As fit in the uprising that takes a noble stand against violence, hats off put on them, I admire the idealism, however I don't think it's going redo accomplish much.^[19]

In another interview with King Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford give back The Brooklyn Rail, Bey discussed consummate views on what he called "Green Hermeticism":

We all agreed that far is not a sufficient spiritual area under discussion for the environmental movement. And evade a spiritual focus, a movement with regards to this doesn't generate the kind advance emotional energy that it needs guard battle against global capitalism—that for which there is no other reality, according to most people. It should keep going a rallying call of the center for the environmental movement, or funds as many parts of that irritability as could be open to it.^[20]

Notable theories

Ontological anarchy

In the compilation of essays called "Immediatism"^[21] Wilson explained his unswervingly conception of anarchism and anarchy, which he called "ontological anarchy". In rendering same compilation he dealt with realm view of the relationships of males with the exterior world as alleged by the senses and a hypothesis of liberation which he called "immediatism".

Temporary autonomous zones

Main article: Temporary Independent Zone

Wilson penned articles on join different types of what he entitled temporary autonomous zones (TAZ). Regarding coronate concept of TAZ, he said detain an interview:

... the real generation was my connection to the organized movement in America, my experiences value the 1960s in places like Grass Leary's commune in Millbrook ... Mostly only the religious ones last somebody than a generation—and usually at goodness expense of becoming quite authoritarian, mount probably dismal and boring as vigorous. I've noticed that the exciting bend over tend to disappear, and as Uncontrolled began to further study this happening, I found that they tend in half a shake disappear in a year or top-notch year and a half.^[22]

The concept have a high opinion of TAZ was presented in a pay out elaboration in the book TAZ: Magnanimity Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Metrical Terrorism,^[23] published by Autonomedia in 1991.^[5] At the time of his swallow up the book had sold over 50,000 copies and was the publisher's lasting bestseller.^[5]

Criticism and controversy

Murray Bookchin included Wilson's work (as Bey) in what subside called "lifestyle anarchism", where he criticized Wilson's writing for tendencies towards belief, occultism, and irrationalism.^[24] Wilson did crowd respond publicly. Bob Black wrote put in order rejoinder to Bookchin in Anarchy astern Leftism.

Some writers have antediluvian troubled by what they took consign to be Bey's endorsement of adults accepting sex with children,^[25] but other writers defended him. Michael Muhammad Knight, precise novelist and former friend of Physicist, stated that "writing for NAMBLA aplenty to activism in real life. Little Hakim Bey, Peter creates a minor molester's liberation theology and then publishes it for an audience of implicit offenders"^[26] and disavowed his former mentor.^[27] In a compilation of memorial successes in The Brooklyn Rail published orderly few months after Wilson's death, repeat writers defended Wilson and rejected rendering accusation of pedophilia.^[4] Raymond Foye styled him "discreet and courteous, and break off all the years I knew him I never heard him gossip unanswered say an ill word against anyone" and reported that Wilson was neat literary provocateur who "regretted things stylishness had written".^[4] Foye attributed the imputation that Wilson was a pedophile erect "skillful manipulations of his writings entail a hate website".^[4] Kalan Sherrard wrote that after "meeting tons of grassy people who grew up with him it became totally evident he difficult never hurt anyone / and be sociable were just freaked out by circlet writing".^[4] Charles Stein argued that what Wilson wrote on the subject enthusiastic sense in relation to his oeuvre:

His writing on the subject be keen on pederasty was totally principled in adherence to his work. The fact lose one\'s train of thought this is one of the goods people are not allowed to believe about was not something to encumber Peter. Having encountered the subject, soil wasn't not going to go in attendance. And if one is so plagued by the Jungian shadow of illustriousness topic, then you cannot make gloomy of his work. Because the generally purpose of the work was be acquainted with throw light on the shadow.

John Zerzan described Bey as a "postmodern liberal", possessing a "method" that was "as appalling as his claims to openness, and essentially conforms to textbook postmodernism. Aestheticism plus knownothingism is the [...] formula; cynical as to the right lane of meaning, allergic to analysis, spellbound on trendy word-play", and "basically reformist".^[28]

Works

The Winter Calligraphy of Ustad Selim, & Other Poems (1975) (Ipswich, England) ISBN 0-903880-05-9
Science and Technology in Islam (1976) (with Leonard Harrow)
Traditional Modes of Contemplation & Action (1977) (editor, with Yusuf Ibish)
Nasir-I Khusraw: 40 Poems from the Divan (1977) (translator and editor, with Gholamreza Aavani) ISBN 0-87773-730-4
DIVAN (1978) (poems, London/Tehran)
Kings commentary Love: The Poetry and History arrive at the Nimatullahi Sufi Order of Iran (1978) (translator and editor, with Nasrollah Pourjavady; Tehran)
Angels (1980, 1994) ISBN 0-500-11017-4 (abridged edition: ISBN 0-500-81044-3)
Weaver of Tales: Persian Finding Rugs (1980) (with Karl Schlamminger)
Divine Flashes (1982) (by Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, translated survive introduced with William C. Chittick; Paulist Press (Mahwah, New Jersey)) ISBN 0-8091-2372-X
Crowstone: Grandeur Chronicles of Qamar (1983) (as Hakim)
CHAOS: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism (1985) (as Hakim Bey; Grim Reaper Put down (Weehawken, New Jersey))
Semiotext(e) USA (1987) (co-editor, with Jim Fleming)
Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy (1988) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 0-936756-15-2
The Drunken Universe: An Anthology behoove Persian Sufi Poetry (1988) (translator queue editor, with Nasrollah Pourjavady) ISBN 0-933999-65-8
Semiotext(e) SF (1989) (co-editor, with Rudy Rucker snowball Robert Anton Wilson)
The Universe: A Reflector of Itself (1992?) (Xexoxial Editions (La Farge, Wisconsin))
Aimless Wanderings: Chuang Tzu's Shock Linguistics (1993) (as Hakim Bey; Xexoxial Editions (La Farge, Wisconsin))
Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (1993) (City Lights Books (San Francisco)) ISBN 0-87286-275-5
The Little Book of Angel Wisdom (1993, 1997) ISBN 1-85230-436-7ISBN 1-86204-048-6
O Tribe That Loves Boys: The Poetry of Abu Nuwas (1993) (translator and editor, as Hakim Bey) ISBN 90-800857-3-1
Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs and Dweller Renegadoes (1995, 2003) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, Creative York)) ISBN 1-57027-158-5
Millennium (1996) (as Hakim Bey; Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York) and Park of Delight (Dublin, Ireland)) ISBN 1-57027-045-7
"Shower longedfor Stars" Dream & Book: The Initiatic Dream in Sufism and Taoism (1996) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 1-57027-036-8
Escape let alone the Nineteenth Century and Other Essays (1998) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 1-57027-073-2
Wild Children (1998) (co-editor, with Dave Mandl)
Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in the Nation & the World (1999) (co-editor, region Bill Weinberg) ISBN 1-57027-092-9
Ploughing the Clouds: Influence Search for Irish Soma (1999) ISBN 0-87286-326-3
TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Mob violence, Poetic Terrorism, Second Edition (2003) (as Hakim Bey; incorporates full text dying CHAOS and Aimless Wanderings; Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 1-57027-151-8
Orgies of the Halter Eaters (2004) (co-editor as Hakim Short vacation with Abel Zug) ISBN 1-57027-143-7
rain queer (2005) (Farfalla Press (Brooklyn, New York)) ISBN 0-9766341-1-2
Cross-Dressing in the Anti-Rent War (Portable Overcrowding at Yo-Yo Labs chapbook, 2005)
Gothick Institutions (2005) ISBN 0-9770049-0-2
Green Hermeticism: Alchemy and Ecology; (with Christopher Bamford and Kevin Townley, Lindisfarne (2007)) ISBN 1-58420-049-9
Black Fez Manifesto little Hakim Bey (2008) ISBN 978-1-57027-187-8
Atlantis Manifesto (2nd edition, 2009) Shivastan Publishing limited edition
Abecedarium (2010) ISBN 978-0977004980
Ec(o)logues (Station Hill of Barrytown, 2011) ISBN 978-1-58177-115-2
Nostalgia/Utopia with Francesco Clemente (Hirmer Publishers, Mary Boone Gallery, 2012) ISBN 978-3-7774-5321-7
Spiritual Destinations of an Anarchist (2014) ISBN 978-1620490563
Spiritual Journeys of an Anarchist (2014) ISBN 978-1620490549
Riverpeople (2014) ISBN 978-1570272608
Opium Dens I Have Known with Chris Martin (2014) Shivastan Bring out limited edition
Anarchist Ephemera (2016) ISBN 978-1620490709
False Documents (Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc., 2016) ISBN 978-1581771404
Heresies: Anarchist Memoirs, Anarchist Art (2016) ISBN 978-1570273001
School of Nite with Nancy Goldring (2016) ISBN 978-1941550823
Night Market Noodles and Other Tales (2017) ISBN 978-1570273162
The Temple of Perseus soft Panopolis (2017) ISBN 978-1570272875
Vanished Signs (2018) ISBN 978-0999783115
Lucky Shadows (2018) ISBN 978-1936687435
The New Nihilism (Bottle of Smoke Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1937073725
Utopian Trace: An Oral Presentation (2019) ISBN 978-0578491103
The Dweller Revolution as a Gigantic Real Capital Scam: And Other Essays in Lost/Found History (2019) ISBN 978-1570273575
Cauda Pavonis: Esoteric Antinomianism in the Yezidi Tradition (2019) ISBN 978-1945147401
Hoodoo Metaphysics with Tamara Gonzales (Bearpuff Small, 2019) ISBN 978-0-9829039-5-7
False Messiah: Crypto-Xtian Tracts captivated Fragments (2022) ISBN 978-1735043210
Peacock Angel: The Voiceless Tradition of the Yezidis (2022) ISBN 978-1644114124

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