The underground cult bestseller! Essays redefining the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho-black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults—this is the bastard classic, the watermark impressed upon our minds. Where conscience informs praxis, and action infects consciousness, T.A.Z. continues to worm its way into above-ground culture. Second edition, with a new introductory essay by the author and additional appendical materials.
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Hakim Bey is the nom-de-plume of a notorious anarchist intellectual, under which a large number of essays and communiques have appeared, mostly in the punk underground and on-line. He splits his time between a trailer in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and a run-down NYC Chinatown hotel.
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Grand!,
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This review is from: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (Autonomedia New Autonomy Series) (Paperback)
A masterpiece, quite possibly the best book I have ever read! Hakim Bey managed to synthesize the philosophical statement that I have been looking for my whole life! It is good to see such an articulate voice out there who managed to "see through" the paradigm -the Spectacle- and suggest such creative and joyous ways for all humans realize their TRUE POTENTIAL. I've always felt that mysticism and all that consciousness-expansion talk had received a bad stigma because of all the "new age" framing it undertook, but Bey manages not only to "deframe" this concept, and poetically shows the VALUE that such practices can have to "free one's mind" - show people that they need not be oppressed, dogmatic, hive-minded SLAVES, that they truly are MONARCHS. Mysticism helps in a way that it provides methods for the individual rid himself of the "inner cops" inside their heads -all the social programming of generations, sabotaging us by our Freaudian Superegos. Deep inner changes, deep inner consciousness are monstrous catalysts for social reforms -accompanied by good wine and sense of humour- in true anarchist fashion, as Bey rightly states, even though I have a feeling his intent was more focused on change on an individual level...
Well, it was definitely the first book that made me laugh and cry hysterically, but I understand it might be too overwhelming to some... I'm hopeful that younger generations, such as mine (I'm 20) have the opportunity to be presented to such work, especially at an early age... Man, why haven't I read this back in my schooldays? I might just have quit everything and ran into the woods! =D 5*s
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A wonderful roller-coaster through radical consciousness,
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"Thought provoking" is a term that's been abused and debased into shallow, lukewarm praise-- like calling a piece of art "interesting". Few books actually manage to demand a serious response from the reader; to attack us into interacting, to force us to really THINK. T.A.Z. does that. If you like that sort of thing - you know who you are - read it.It seems to me that many people, including some reviewers here, have grossly misunderstood this wonderful little book. I will say if you are very closed-minded or extremely sensitive to offense, you may have a hard time. All the more reason to read it. T.A.Z. collects various writings (ranging in length from essays to slogans) first published throughout the 1980s by a mysterious Brooklyn-based anarchist; in fact, "Hakim Bey" is an author-character invented by writer Peter Lamborn Wilson for a wide variety of purposes: sometimes to voice opinions of Wilson's, sometimes as an antithetical strawman to Wilson's own perspective, sometimes to go further out on a limb in a line of thought than Wilson is comfortable to go himself, sometimes to scare people, to seduce them, to desensitize, sensitize, expose outrageous truths, craft subtle lies (some embedded with hidden truth, some maybe not) and to generally be radical/extremist- culturally politically and philosophically. Which of Bey's statements fall into what categories is not always clear, to the frustration of some and fascination of others (such as myself). Ultimately it is impossible to tell which of the author's statements are "real", ie perspectives truly held by Wilson, but that doesn't matter. The point is more to stimulate a response in the reader than to actually proselytize. That said, there is plenty of genuine info here: data, analysis, quotations, street reportage, etc. People tend to conflate Wilson and Bey. Writings published under Wilson's own name, which tend to be more reasoned and academic, demonstrate something of a contrast. Bey's constant quotations of Nietzsche, who famously practiced similar authorial cons, and his conflicting/competing perspectives are also major clues. Futhermore, it is rumored that there were several silent contributors to the Bey material, one of whom was Robert Anton Wilson, a close friend of PLW's. The bottom line is that, like the bible, this book is LITERATURE. Treated as such, it is an incredible head-trip and potentially life-changing. I highly recommend TAZ to anyone interested in radical change, in consciousness or other. I'd also point fans towards a similar book from many years before: Thundersqueakby Angerford & Lea (aka Ramsey Dukes, which is yet another pseudonym). Read them carefully!
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Brought a tear to my eye,
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This small book is so big in ideas. This man truly understands the beauty and love of freedom itself.
I'm not saying this as an "Anarchist" or -ist or -tarian or -whatever. I like this book for the thoughts in its essays. And yes, indeed, I do want somehow to find/create even for a brief time a truly T.A.Z... Perhaps on an artificial island in the pacific? Or perhaps in a decade or so with our economy trashing we can have "Free Cities" briefly?
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