Editing Peter Lamborn Wilson (section)

==Hakim Bey==

Wilson took an interest in the subculture of [[zine]]s flourishing in [[Manhattan]] in the early 1980s, zines being tiny hand-made photocopied magazines published in small quantities concerning whatever the publishers found compelling. "He began writing essays, ''communiqués'' as he liked to call them, under the pen name Hakim Bey, which he mailed to friends and publishers of the 'zines' he liked. ... His mailouts were immediately popular, and regarded as copyright-free syndicated columns ready for anyone to paste into their photocopied 'zines'..."<ref>Rabinowitz, Jacob ''Blame It On Blake: A Memoir of Dead Languages, Gender Vagrancy, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso & Carr'' (2019),{{ISBN|1095139053}}, pages 163-165</ref>

Wilson's occasional pen name of ''Hakim Bey'' was derived from il-Hakim, the alchemist-king, with 'Bey' a further nod to [[Moorish Science]]. Wilson's two personas, as himself and Bey, were facilitated by his publishers who provide separate author biographies even when both appeared in the same publication.<ref>Knight, Michael M. ''William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an'', Soft Skull Press, Berkley 2012, p74</ref>

His ''Temporary Autonomous Zones'' work has been referenced in comparison to the "[[free party]]" or [[teknival]] scene of the [[rave]] subculture.<ref name="Maas2015">{{cite book|last=Maas|first=Sander van|title=Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U0eHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA231|year=2015|publisher=Fordham University Press|isbn=978-0-8232-6439-1|page=231|access-date=2017-09-05|archive-date=2021-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427164649/https://books.google.com/books?id=U0eHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA231|url-status=live}}</ref> Wilson was supportive of the rave connection, while remarking in an interview, "The ravers were among my biggest readers ... I wish they would rethink all this techno stuff — they didn't get that part of my writing."<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/07/express/an-anarchist-in-the-hudson-valley-br-pet | title=An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley | journal=Brooklyn Rail | date=July 2004 | access-date=2009-09-26 | archive-date=2015-04-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428232100/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/07/express/an-anarchist-in-the-hudson-valley-br-pet | url-status=live }}</ref>

According to Gavin Grindon, in the 1990s, the British group [[Reclaim the Streets]] was heavily influenced by the ideas put forward in Hakim Bey's ''The Temporary Autonomous Zone''. Their adoption of the carnivalesque into their form of protest evolved eventually into the first "global street party" held in cities across the world on May 16, 1998, the day of a G8 summit meeting in Birmingham. These "parties", explained Grindon, in turn developed into the Carnivals Against Capitalism, in London on June 18, 1999, organized by Reclaim the Streets in coordination with worldwide antiglobalization protests called by the international network [[Peoples' Global Action]] during the [[25th G8 summit]] meeting in Cologne, Germany.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gavin |first=Grindon |date=January 2020 |title=Carnival against the Capital of Capital: Carnivalesque Protest in Occupy Wall Street |doi=10.33823/jfs.2020.2.1.47 |journal=Journal of Festive Studies |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=147–148 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

In 2013, Wilson commented on the [[Occupy Movement]] in an interview with David Levi Strauss of ''[[The Brooklyn Rail]]'':

<blockquote>I was beginning to feel that there would never be another American uprising, that the energy was gone, and I have some reasons to think that might be true. I like to point out that the crime rate in America has been declining for a long time, and in my opinion it's because Americans don't even have enough gumption to commit crimes anymore: the creative aspect of crime has fallen into decay. As for the uprising that takes a principled stand against violence, hats off to them, I admire the idealism, but I don't think it's going to accomplish much.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Levi Strauss | first=David | title=In Conversation with Peter Lamborn Wilson | journal=The Brooklyn Rail | url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/10/art/peter-lamborn-wilson-with-tyler-akers-rabia-ashfaque-carina-badalamenti-matthew-farina-jessica-holmes-candy-koh-naomi-lev-david-levi-strauss-sabrina-locks-tara-stickley-erin-sutphin-terrence-trouillot-and-david-willis | date=October 2012 | access-date=2013-08-05 | archive-date=2013-09-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917123116/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/10/art/peter-lamborn-wilson-with-tyler-akers-rabia-ashfaque-carina-badalamenti-matthew-farina-jessica-holmes-candy-koh-naomi-lev-david-levi-strauss-sabrina-locks-tara-stickley-erin-sutphin-terrence-trouillot-and-david-willis | url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>

In another interview with [[David Levi Strauss]] and Christopher Bamford in ''The Brooklyn Rail'', Bey discussed his views on what he called "Green Hermeticism": 
<blockquote>We all agreed that there is not a sufficient spiritual focus for the environmental movement. And without a spiritual focus, a movement like this doesn't generate the kind of emotional energy that it needs to battle against global capitalism—that for which there is no other reality, according to most people. It should be a rallying call of the spirit for the environmental movement, or for as many parts of that movement as could be open to it.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Levi Strauss | first=David | title=Green Hermeticism: David Levi Strauss in conversation with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Christopher Bamford | journal=The Brooklyn Rail | date=January 2008 | url=http://brooklynrail.org/2007/12/art/green-hermeticism | access-date=2012-04-06 | archive-date=2012-08-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804120941/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/12/art/green-hermeticism | url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>