Peter Lamborn Wilson is a political writer, poet, and self-described "anarchistontologist". 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
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 Many of these poems, including the 'Sandburg' series, are collected in the as-yet unpublished DogStar volume.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/)
Hakim's Communiqués, because they were so beautifully written and offered without copyright, were starting to get printed in small zines in the States, but you were fortunate indeed to be on the receiving end of the originals.
Hakim lived in New York, and gave every impression of living in a room full of books and papers, playing crackly records evocative of Arab bazaars, with a stack of moth-eared fading vintage erotica of naked boys jumping into the ocean attempting to swim to pirate galleons.
Hakim impressed this point on me so completely that I realised that it was purely reality he was after, rejecting outright and vociferously mere representations of reality.
In addition to his writings on anarchism and Temporary Autonomous Zones, Wilson has written essays on such diverse topics as Tong traditions, the utopian Charles Fourier, the proto-national anarchist Gabriele D'Annunzio, the connections between Sufism and ancient Celtic culture, sacred pederasty in the Sufi tradition, technology and Luddism, and Amanita muscaria use in ancient Ireland.
Bey's poetic 'texts' and poems have appeared in: P.A.N.; Panthology One, Two, and Three; Ganymede; Exquisite Corpse; NAMBLA Bulletin; the various Acolyte Reader paperbacks.
Bey's translations include a volume of the poems of Abu Nuwas, O Tribe That Loves Boys.
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