Temporary Autonomous Zone

T.A.Z.

The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

by Hakim Bey

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Book design & typesetting: Dave Mandl
Based on an original conversion by Mike Morrison, with minor corrections and compilation into one single file done by Marius Watz.

Further reorganized for Everything2 because linking outside of E2 is unreliable and tends to date things. Furthermore, hardlinks will increase over time as further relevance is found. Softlinks, of course, belong to you. All that you see is forever changing. For the ages, man.

Contents

Acknowledgments

CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM

• Chaos
• Poetic Terrorism
• Amour Fou
• Wild Children
• Paganism
• Art Sabotage
• The Assassins
• Pyrotechnics
• Chaos Myths
• Pornography
• Crime
• Sorcery
• Advertisement

COMMUNIQUES OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY

• Communique #1:
• I. Slogans & Mottos for Subway Graffiti & Other Purposes
• II. Some Poetic-Terrorist Ideas Still Sadly Languishing in the Realm of "Conceptual Art,"
• Communique #2: The Kallikak Memorial Bolo & Chaos Ashram: A Proposal
• Communique #3: Haymarket Issue
• Communique #4: The End of the World
• Communique #5: "Intellectual S/M Is the Fascism of the Eighties--The Avant-Garde Eats Shit and Likes It,"
• Communique #6:
• I. Salon Apocalypse: "Secret Theater,"
• II. Murder--War--Famine--Greed
• Communique #7: Psychic Paleolithism & High Technology: A Position Paper
• Communique #8: Chaos Theory & the Nuclear Family
• Communique #9: Double-Dip Denunciations
• Communique #10: Plenary Session Issues New Denunciations--Purges Expected
• Communique #11: Special Holiday Season Food Issue Rant: Turn Off the Lite!
• Special Halloween Communique: Black Magic as Revolutionary Action
• Special Communique: A.O.A. Announces Purges in Chaos Movement
• Post-Anarchism Anarchy
• Black Crown & Black Rose: Anarcho-Monarchism & Anarcho-Mysticism
• Instructions for the Kali Yuga
• Against the Reproduction of Death
• Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism
• For a Congress of Weird Religions
• Hollow Earth
• Nietzche & the Dervishes
• Resolution for the 1990's: Boycott Cop Culture!!!

THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE

• Pirate Utopias
• Waiting for the Revolution
• The Psychotopology of Everyday Life
• The Net and the Web
• "Gone to Croatan"
• Music as an Organizational Principle
• The Will To Power as Disappearance
• Ratholes in the Babylon of Information

Appendix A: Chaos Linguistics
Appendix B: Applied Hedonics
Appendix C: Extra Quotes