''T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone'' is a book by the
anarchist
Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...
writer and poet
Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson). It was published in 1991 by
Autonomedia
Autonomedia is a nonprofit publisher based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn known for publishing works of criticism. As of the mid-2000s, they were staffed by volunteers and had published over 200 books, usually with 3,000 of each run, and its best known ...
and in 2011 by Pacific Publishing Studio (). It is composed of three sections, "Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism", "Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy" and "The Temporary Autonomous Zone".
Themes
The book describes the socio-political tactic of creating temporary spaces that elude formal structures of control.
Bey later expanded the concept beyond the "temporary", saying, "We've had to consider the fact that not all existing autonomous zones are 'temporary.' Some are ... more-or-less 'permanent.'"
Hence, the concept of the permanent autonomous zone.
The titular section is divided up into the following subsections:
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Pirate Utopia
Pirate utopias were defined by anarchist writer Peter Lamborn Wilson, who coined the term in his 1995 book ''Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes'', as secret islands once used for supply purposes by pirates. Wilson's concept ...
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# 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
See also
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List of books about anarchism
This is a chronological list of both fictional and non-fictional books written about anarchism. This list includes books that advocate for anarchism as well as those that criticize or oppose it. For ease of access, this list provides a link to th ...
References
Further reading
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External links
Full text of ''T.A.Z.''T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone free audio version at Archive.org
Anarchist communities
Post-left anarchism
1985 non-fiction books
Books about anarchism
1985 in politics
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