T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey


The underground cult bestseller! Essays that redefine 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. is beginning to worm its way into above-ground culture. This book offers inspired blasts of writing, from slogans to historical essays, on the need to insert revolutionary happiness into everyday life through poetic action, and celebrating the radical optimism present in outlaw cultures. It should appeal to alternative thinkers and punks everywhere, as it celebrates liberation, love and poetic living. The new edition contains the full text of Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism, the complete communiques and flyers of the Association for Ontological Anarchy, the long essay ‘The Temporary Autonomous Zone, ‘ and a new preface by the author

00:00 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

2:49 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

11:23 CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM

COMMUNIQUES OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY

1:01:29 Communiques 1-11

2:03:11 Special Halloween Communique; Black Magic as Revolutionary Action

2:09:32 Special Communique; A.0.A. Announces Purges in Chaos Movement

2:13:08 Post-Anarchism Anarchy

2:21:08 Black Crown & Black Rose; Anarcho-Monarchism & Anarcho-Mysticism

2:38:24 Instructions for the Kali Yuga

2:46:21 Against the Reproduction of Death

2:54:05 Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism

2:58:08 For a Congress of Weird Religions

3:07:31 Hollow Earth

3:13:04 Nietzsche & the Dervishes

3:20:15 Resolution for the 1990’s; Boycott Cop Culture !!!

THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE

3:29:34 Pirate Utopias

3:34:14 Waiting for the Revolution

3:41:47 The Psychotopology of Everyday Life

3:56:12 The Net and the Web

4:15:31 Gone to Croatan

4:35:21 Music as an Organizational Principle

4:44:34 The Will To Power as Disappearance

4:55:58 Ratholes in the Babylon of Information

5:01:29 Appendix A; Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu’ s Chaos Linguistics

5:25:16 Appendix B; Applied Hedonics

5:27:26 Appendix C; Extra Quotes