Also writes under the pseudonym of Hakim Bey.
"Peter Lamborn Wilson's reputation goes back to as early as the late sixties when he wandered North Africa, India and Asia, spending a long time in Iran for his voluminous reading of Islam heretical texts and studying the historical and mystical dimensions of Sufism. New York based Wilson translated Persian poetry, wrote on angels and early American spiritual anarchism and published some pseudonymous manifestos and books (Temporary Autonomous Zone )". -- (in Mediamatic , 1994).
"Underground-anarcho-Sufi". -- (in the Village Voice ).
"Peter Lamborn Wilson has read SF since adolescence, but only recently began writing it. His stories have appeared in the 3rd Interzone Anthology and various small zines....
"He hosts a late-night live talk show ('The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade') on WBAI in New York City, where he discusses the marginal press, science fiction, weird physics, sufism, anarchism, the 'Free Religions' movement, etc., etc....
"He has lectured at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder on sufism and on 'hermetalinguistics'. He is addicted to literary hoaxes and forgeries. Caveat lector". --(in Semiotext(e) SF 14 , 1989).
Member of the Autonomedia collective.
Together with Joe Methany created a parallel universe -- another dimension called 'Incunabula'.
Also see:
For more info about T.A.Z. and Hakim Bey, check Marius Watz's homepage:
The complete text of T.A.Z. by Hakim Bey
Or at Wiretap:
Also check the Mad Farmers Jubilee Almanack homepage:
A full transcript of his talk:
e-mail:
"Virtual Enclosure" (given at the Doors of Perception 2 @Home conference which took place in Amsterdam at the end of 1994)
at the Multimedia's site on the web
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~mariusw/bey/index.html
gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/00/Library/Document/taz.txt
http://nwlink.com/~taz/moortime.html (maintained by Hakim Bey)
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