Editing Peter Lamborn Wilson

{{Short description|American political writer, poet, and essayist (1945–2022)}}
{{Infobox philosopher
|region           = [[Western philosophy]]
* [[American philosophy]]
|era              = [[Contemporary philosophy]]
* [[20th-century philosophy]]
* [[21st-century philosophy]]
|image            = Peter Lamborn Wilson, circa 1970s.jpg
|caption          = Wilson, circa 1970s
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|name             = Peter Lamborn Wilson
|other_names      = Hakim Bey ([[pen name]])
|birth_date       = {{birth date|1945|10|20}}
|birth_place      = [[Baltimore, Maryland]], U.S.
|death_date       = {{death date and age|2022|5|22|1945|10|20}}
|death_place      = [[Saugerties, New York]], U.S.
|resting_place    = Woodstock Artists Cemetery in [[Woodstock, New York]]
|school_tradition = {{plainlist|
* [[Post-anarchism]]
* [[Individualist anarchism]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bey|first=Hakim|url=http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Hakim_Bey__An_esoteric_interpretation_of_the_I.W.W._preamble.html|title=An esoteric interpretation of the I.W.W. preamble|journal=The International Review|year=1991|pages=2–3|access-date=2011-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007043352/http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Hakim_Bey__An_esoteric_interpretation_of_the_I.W.W._preamble.html|archive-date=2011-10-07|url-status=dead}}</ref>
}}
|main_interests   = {{flatlist|
* [[Refusal of work]]
* [[Post-industrial society]]
* [[Mysticism]]
* [[Utopianism]]
}}
|notable_ideas    = {{plainlist| [[Temporary autonomous zone]]s 
*[[Pirate utopia]]}}
|signature        =  Peter Lamborn Wilson signature.svg
| awards = [[Firecracker Alternative Book Award]], 1996 (for ''Pirate Utopias'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|title=Firecracker Alternative Book Awards|work=ReadersRead.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304133738/http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|archive-date=Mar 4, 2009}}</ref>
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'''Peter Lamborn Wilson''' (October 20, 1945 – May 22, 2022) was an American [[anarchist]] author and poet, primarily known for his concept of [[Temporary Autonomous Zone]]s, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Marcus|first=Ezra|date=2020-07-01|title=In the Autonomous Zones|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/style/autonomous-zone-anarchist-community.html|access-date=2021-08-29|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630214924/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/style/autonomous-zone-anarchist-community.html|url-status=live}}</ref> During the 1970s, Wilson lived in the [[Middle East]] and worked at the [[Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy]] under the guidance of Iranian philosopher [[Seyyed Hossein Nasr]], where he explored mysticism and translated Persian texts. Starting from the 1980s he wrote numerous political writings under the [[pen name]] of '''Hakim Bey''', illustrating his theory of "ontological anarchy".

==Life==
Wilson was born in Baltimore on October 20, 1945.<ref name="nyt">{{cite web|title=Peter Lamborn Wilson, Advocate of 'Poetic Terrorism,' Dies at 76|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/us/peter-lamborn-wilson-dead.html|date=June 11, 2022|work=The New York Times|last=Green|first=Penelope|accessdate=June 12, 2022}}</ref> While undertaking a classics major at [[Columbia University]], Wilson met [[Warren Tartaglia]], then introducing Islam to students as the leader of a group called the Noble Moors. Attracted by the philosophy, Wilson was initiated into the group, but later joined a group of breakaway members who founded the [[Moorish Orthodox Church of America|Moorish Orthodox Church]]. The Church maintained a presence at the [[League for Spiritual Discovery]], the group established by [[Timothy Leary]].

Appalled by the social and political climate, Wilson decided to leave the United States, and shortly after the [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]], in 1968 he flew to Lebanon, later reaching India with the intention of studying [[Sufism]], but became fascinated by [[Tantra]], tracking down [[Ganesh Baba]]. He spent a month in a [[Kathmandu]] missionary hospital being treated for [[hepatitis]], and practised meditation techniques in a cave above the east bank of the [[Ganges]]. He also allegedly ingested significant quantities of cannabis.<ref name="Knight">Knight, Michael M. ''William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an'', Soft Skull Press, Berkley 2012, pp11-78</ref>

Wilson travelled on to Pakistan. There he lived in several places, mixing with princes, Sufis, and gutter dwellers, and moving from teahouses to opium dens. In [[Quetta]] he found "a total disregard of all government", with people reliant on family, clans or tribes, which appealed to him.<ref name="Knight" />

Wilson then moved to Iran where that he developed his scholarship. He translated classical Persian texts with French scholar [[Henry Corbin]], and also worked as a journalist at the ''Tehran Journal''. In 1974, [[Farah Pahlavi|Farah Pahlavi Empress of Iran]] commissioned her personal secretary, scholar [[Hossein Nasr|Seyyed Hossein Nasr]], to establish the [[Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy]]. Nasr offered Wilson the position of director of its English language publications, and editorship of its journal ''Sophia Perennis'', which Wilson edited from 1975 until 1978.<ref name="Knight" /> He would go on to also publish on the [[Ni'matullāhī]] Sufi Order and [[Isma'ilism]] with [[Nasrollah Pourjavady]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pourjavady |first1=Nasrollah |last2=Wilson |first2=Peter Lamborn |title=Ismā'īlīs and Ni'matullāhīs |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1595401 |journal=Studia Islamica |pages=113–135 |doi=10.2307/1595401 |date=1975|issue=41 |jstor=1595401 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pūrǧawādī |first1=Naṣrallāh |last2=Wilson |first2=Peter Lamborn |last3=Nasr |first3=Seyyed Hossein |title=Kings of love. The poetry and history of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order |date=1978 |publisher=Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy |location=Teheran |isbn=978-0877737339}}</ref>  

Following the [[Iranian Revolution]] in 1979, Wilson lived in New York City, sharing a brownstone townhouse with [[William Burroughs]], with whom he bonded over their shared interests. Burroughs acknowledged Wilson for providing material on [[Hassan-i Sabbah]] which he used for his novel ''[[The Western Lands]]''.<ref name="Knight" />

In later life, Wilson lived in upstate New York in conditions he termed "independently poor".<ref name="nyt" /> He has been described as "a subcultural monument".<ref>Jarrett, Earnest. [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/06/art/hakim-bey-with-jarrett-earnest "Living Under Sick Machines: Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825134145/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/06/art/hakim-bey-with-jarrett-earnest |date=2016-08-25 }}, ''The Brooklyn Rail'', 5 June 2014.</ref>

Towards the end of his life, he showed an interest in the [[Bábism|Bābī]] religion, especially in its [[Azalism|Azali]] form. This was mentioned in his two final books published in early 2022.<ref>Wilson, Peter Lamborn.[https://autonomedia.org/product/false-messiah-crypto-xtian-tracts-and-fragments/ "False Messiah: Crypto-Xtian Tracts and Fragments"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607044302/https://autonomedia.org/product/false-messiah-crypto-xtian-tracts-and-fragments/ |date=2022-06-07 }}, ''Autonomedia/Logosophia; First edition'', 17 February 2022, pp.76-77.</ref><ref>Wilson, Peter Lamborn. [https://www.innertraditions.com/books/peacock-angel "Peacock Angel: The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515173352/https://www.innertraditions.com/books/peacock-angel |date=2022-05-15 }}, ''Inner Traditions'', 8 March 2022, pp.15, 17, 113, 235n4</ref>

Wilson died of heart failure on May 22, 2022, in [[Saugerties, New York]].<ref name="nyt" /><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2022/05/24/news/hakim_bey_una_delle_figure_di_spicco_della_cultura_cyberpunk_e_morto-351063565/ | title=Hakim Bey, una delle figure di spicco della cultura Cyberpunk, è morto | date=24 May 2022 | access-date=31 May 2022 | archive-date=31 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531151647/https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2022/05/24/news/hakim_bey_una_delle_figure_di_spicco_della_cultura_cyberpunk_e_morto-351063565/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://ionline.sapo.pt/artigo/772297/morreu-peter-lamborn-wilson-o-ltimo-pirata | title=Morreu Peter Lamborn Wilson, o último pirata | work=ionline | access-date=2022-05-31 | archive-date=2022-05-31 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531150651/https://ionline.sapo.pt/artigo/772297/morreu-peter-lamborn-wilson-o-ltimo-pirata | url-status=live }}</ref>

==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>

==Notable theories==

===Ontological anarchy===
In the compilation of essays called "Immediatism"<ref>''Immediatism'' by Hakim Bey. AK Press. 1994.</ref> Wilson explained his particular conception of anarchism and anarchy, which he called "ontological anarchy". In the same compilation he dealt with his view of the relationships of individuals with the exterior world as perceived by the senses and a theory of liberation which he called "immediatism".

===Temporary autonomous zones===
{{Main|Temporary Autonomous Zone}}

Wilson wrote articles on types of what he called temporary autonomous zones (TAZ),  of which he said in an interview: <blockquote>... "the real genesis was my connection to the communal movement in America, my experiences in the 1960s in places like [[Timothy Leary]]'s [[Hitchcock Estate|commune]] in [[Millbrook, New York|Millbrook]] ... Usually only the religious ones last longer than a generation—and usually at the expense of becoming quite authoritarian, and probably dismal and boring as well. I've noticed that the exciting ones tend to disappear, and as I began to further study this phenomenon, I found that they tend to disappear in a year or a year and a half.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.e-flux.com/journal/in-conversation-with-hakim-bey/ |title=Hans Ulrich Obrist. "In Conversation with Hakim Bey" at e-flux |access-date=2012-10-29 |archive-date=2012-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814230623/http://www.e-flux.com/journal/in-conversation-with-hakim-bey/ |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>

He wrote about TAZ at length in the book ''TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism,''<ref>Hakim Bey. ''TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism.'' Autonomedia. August 1991</ref> published by [[Autonomedia]] in 1991.<ref name="nyt" /> At the time of his death the book had sold over 100,000 copies and was the publisher's perennial bestseller.<ref name="nyt" />

==Criticism and controversy==
[[Murray Bookchin]] included Wilson's work (as Bey) in what he called "[[lifestyle anarchism]]", where he criticized Wilson's writing for tendencies towards [[mysticism]], [[occultism]], and [[irrationalism]].<ref>Bookchin, Murray. ''Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism'' (1995). [[AK Press]]: [[Stirling]]. {{ISBN|978-1-873176-83-2}}. (pp. 20-26)</ref> [[The Abolition of Work|Bob Black]] wrote a rejoinder to Bookchin in ''Anarchy after Leftism''.

Some writers have been troubled by what they took to be Bey's endorsement of adults having sex with children,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-William-S-Burroughs-vs-The-Qur-an-3530181.php |title=Book Review: William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an by Michael Muhammad Knight |last=Marcus |first=Richard |date=2 May 2012 |website=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |publisher=[[Hearst (media)|Hearst Communications]] |access-date=14 March 2017 |archive-date=14 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314155914/http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-William-S-Burroughs-vs-The-Qur-an-3530181.php |url-status=live }}</ref> but other writers defended him. [[Michael Muhammad Knight]], a novelist and former friend of Wilson, stated that "writing for [[NAMBLA]] amounts to activism in real life. As Hakim Bey, Peter creates a child molester's liberation theology and then publishes it for an audience of potential offenders"<ref name="Knight2012">{{cite book|author=Michael Knight|title=William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-Idml4Zg3oC&pg=PA85|date=17 April 2012|publisher=[[Soft Skull Press]]|isbn=978-1-59376-415-9|pages=85–86|quote=He doesn't know that I've read the NAMBLA poems or ''Crowstone'' or that I would have a problem with it. I'm not a liar yet, because at least I'm trying to work this out for myself. But it doesn't look good. I try to see it as Sufi allegory, a hidden parable somewhere in all the porn, like Ibn 'Arabi's poems about Nizam or Rumi's donkey-sex story. Does anyone accuse Rumi of bestiality? Apart from the ugly ''zahir'' meaning, the surface-level interpretation, there could be a secret ''batin'' meaning, and the boys aren't really boys but personifications of Divine Names. It almost settles things for me, but writing for NAMBLA amounts to activism in real life. As Hakim Bey, Peter creates a child molester's liberation theology and then publishes it for an audience of potential offenders. The historical settings that he uses for validation, whether Mediterranean pirates or medieval fringe Sufis, relate less to homosexuality than to prison rape: heterosexual males with physical and/or material power but no access to women, claiming whatever warm holes are available. What Hakim Bey calls "alternative sexuality" is in fact only old patriarchy–the man with the beard expressing his power through penetration. His supporters might dismiss "childhood" as a mere construction of the post-industrial age, but Hakim Bey forces me to consider that once in a while, I have to side with the awful modern world.|access-date=26 April 2017|archive-date=26 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426155607/https://books.google.com/books?id=f-Idml4Zg3oC&pg=PA85|url-status=live}}</ref> and disavowed his former mentor.<ref name="Fiscella2009">{{cite book|last=Fiscella|first=Anthony|editor=Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos|title=Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jvQZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA301|date=2 October 2009|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-1503-1|page=301|chapter=Imagining an Islamic anarchism: a new field of study is ploughed|quote=Though still indebted to Wilson for publishing ''The Taqwacores'', Knight has disavowed his former mentor due to Wilson's advocacy of paedophilia/pederasty. While standing up for an Islam that embraces all sorts of heresies, Knight has felt compelled to draw boundaries of his own.|access-date=26 April 2017|archive-date=26 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426151723/https://books.google.com/books?id=jvQZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA301|url-status=live}}</ref> In a compilation of memorial tributes in ''The Brooklyn Rail'' published a few months after Wilson's death, many writers defended Wilson and rejected the accusation of pedophilia.<ref name=memoriam>{{cite web |title=In Memoriam: A Tribute to Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945–2022) Edited by Raymond Foye |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2022/10/in-memoriam/A-Tribute-to-Peter-Lamborn-Wilson |website=The Brooklyn Rail |date=October 2022}}</ref> Raymond Foye called him "discreet and courteous, and in all the years I knew him I never heard him gossip or say an ill word against anyone" and reported that Wilson was a literary provocateur who "regretted things he had written".<ref name=memoriam/> Foye attributed the accusation that Wilson was a pedophile to "skillful manipulations of his writings in a hate website".<ref name=memoriam/> Kalan Sherrard wrote that after "meeting tons of young people who grew up with him it became totally evident he had never hurt anyone / and people were just freaked out by his writing".<ref name=memoriam/> Charles Stein argued that what Wilson wrote on the subject made sense in relation to his {{em|oeuvre}}: {{blockquote|1=His writing on the subject of pederasty was totally principled in relation to his work. The fact that this is one of the things people are not allowed to think about was not something to deter Peter. Having encountered the subject, he wasn't {{em|not}} going to go there. And if one is so overwhelmed by the Jungian shadow of the topic, then you cannot make use of his work. Because the whole purpose of the work was to throw light on the shadow.}}

[[John Zerzan]] described Bey as a "postmodern liberal", possessing a "method" that was "as appalling as his claims to truthfulness, and essentially conforms to textbook postmodernism. Aestheticism plus knownothingism is the [...] formula; cynical as to the possibility of meaning, allergic to analysis, hooked on trendy word-play", and "basically reformist".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/pmanarchist.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010426225519/http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/pmanarchist.htm |archive-date=2001-04-26 |first=John |last=Zerzan |title="Hakim Bey," postmodern "anarchist" |website=www.insurgentdesire.org.uk}}</ref>

==Works==
*''The Winter Calligraphy of Ustad Selim, & Other Poems'' (1975) (Ipswich, England) {{ISBN|0-903880-05-9}}
*''Science and Technology in Islam'' (1976) (with [[Leonard Harrow]])
*''Traditional Modes of Contemplation & Action'' (1977) (editor, with {{ill|Yusuf Ibish|qid=Q55678733|short=yes}})
*''Nasir-I Khusraw: 40 Poems from the Divan'' (1977) (translator and editor, with [[Gholamreza Aavani]]) {{ISBN|0-87773-730-4}}
*''DIVAN'' (1978) (poems, London/Tehran)
*''Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order of Iran'' (1978) (translator and editor, with [[Nasrollah Pourjavady]]; Tehran)
*''Angels'' (1980, 1994) {{ISBN|0-500-11017-4}} (abridged edition: {{ISBN|0-500-81044-3}})
*''Weaver of Tales: Persian Picture Rugs'' (1980) (with {{ill|Karl Schlamminger|qid==Q112551333|short=yes}})
*''Divine Flashes'' (1982) (by [[Fakhruddin 'Iraqi]], translated and introduced with [[William Chittick|William C. Chittick]]; Paulist Press (Mahwah, New Jersey)) {{ISBN|0-8091-2372-X}}
*''Crowstone: The Chronicles of Qamar'' (1983) (as Hakim)
*''CHAOS: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism'' (1985) (as Hakim Bey; Grim Reaper Press (Weehawken, New Jersey))
*''Semiotext(e) USA'' (1987) (co-editor, with Jim Fleming)
*''Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy'' (1988) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) {{ISBN|0-936756-15-2}}
*''The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry'' (1988) (translator and editor, with Nasrollah Pourjavady) {{ISBN|0-933999-65-8}}
*''Semiotext(e) SF'' (1989) (co-editor, with [[Rudy Rucker]] and [[Robert Anton Wilson]])
*''The Universe:  A Mirror of Itself'' (1992?) (Xexoxial Editions (La Farge, Wisconsin))
*''Aimless Wanderings: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics'' (1993) (as Hakim Bey; Xexoxial Editions (La Farge, Wisconsin))
*''Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam'' (1993) (City Lights Books (San Francisco)) {{ISBN|0-87286-275-5}}
*''The Little Book of Angel Wisdom'' (1993, 1997) {{ISBN|1-85230-436-7}} {{ISBN|1-86204-048-6}}
*''O Tribe That Loves Boys: The Poetry of [[Abu Nuwas]]'' (1993) (translator and editor, as Hakim Bey) {{ISBN|90-800857-3-1}}
*''[[Pirate utopia|Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs and European Renegadoes]]'' (1995, 2003) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) {{ISBN|1-57027-158-5}}
*''Millennium'' (1996) (as Hakim Bey; Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York) and Garden of Delight (Dublin, Ireland)) {{ISBN|1-57027-045-7}}
*''"Shower of Stars" Dream & Book: The Initiatic Dream in Sufism and Taoism'' (1996) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) {{ISBN|1-57027-036-8}}
*''Escape from the Nineteenth Century and Other Essays'' (1998) (Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) {{ISBN|1-57027-073-2}}
*''Wild Children'' (1998) (co-editor, with [[Dave Mandl]])
*''Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in the City & the World'' (1999) (co-editor, with [[Bill Weinberg]]) {{ISBN|1-57027-092-9}}
*''Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma'' (1999) {{ISBN|0-87286-326-3}}
*''[[Temporary Autonomous Zone|TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, Second Edition]]'' (2003) (as Hakim Bey; incorporates full text of ''CHAOS'' and ''Aimless Wanderings''; Autonomedia (Brooklyn, New York)) {{ISBN|1-57027-151-8}}
*''Orgies of the Hemp Eaters'' (2004) (co-editor as Hakim Bey with Abel Zug) {{ISBN|1-57027-143-7}}
*''rain queer'' (2005) ([[Farfalla Press]] (Brooklyn, New York)) {{ISBN|0-9766341-1-2}}
*''Cross-Dressing in the Anti-Rent War'' (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs chapbook, 2005)
*''Gothick Institutions'' (2005) {{ISBN|0-9770049-0-2}}
*''Green Hermeticism:  Alchemy and Ecology''; (with {{ill|Christopher Bamford|qid=Q112452188|short=yes}} and [[Kevin Townley]], Lindisfarne (2007)) {{ISBN|1-58420-049-9}}
*''Black Fez Manifesto'' as Hakim Bey (2008) {{ISBN|978-1-57027-187-8}}
*''Atlantis Manifesto'' (2nd edition, 2009) Shivastan Publishing limited edition
*''Abecedarium'' (2010) {{ISBN|978-0977004980}}
*''Ec(o)logues'' (Station Hill of Barrytown, 2011) {{ISBN|978-1-58177-115-2}}
*''Nostalgia/Utopia'' with Francesco Clemente (Hirmer Publishers, Mary Boone Gallery, 2012) {{ISBN|978-3-7774-5321-7}}
*''Spiritual Destinations of an Anarchist'' (2014) {{ISBN|978-1620490563}}
*''Spiritual Journeys of an Anarchist'' (2014) {{ISBN|978-1620490549}}
*''Riverpeople'' (2014) {{ISBN|978-1570272608}}
*''Opium Dens I Have Known'' with Chris Martin (2014) Shivastan Publishing limited edition
*''Anarchist Ephemera'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-1620490709}}
*''False Documents'' (Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc., 2016) {{ISBN|978-1581771404}}
*''Heresies: Anarchist Memoirs, Anarchist Art'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-1570273001}}
*''School of Nite'' with [[Nancy Goldring]] (2016) {{ISBN|978-1941550823}}
*''Night Market Noodles and Other Tales'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-1570273162}}
*''The Temple of Perseus at Panopolis'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-1570272875}}
*''Vanished Signs'' (2018) {{ISBN|978-0999783115}}
*''Lucky Shadows'' (2018) {{ISBN|978-1936687435}}
*''The New Nihilism'' ([[Bottle of Smoke Press]], 2018) {{ISBN|978-1937073725}}
*''Utopian Trace: An Oral Presentation'' (2019) {{ISBN|978-0578491103}}
*''The American Revolution as a Gigantic Real Estate Scam: And Other Essays in Lost/Found History'' (2019) {{ISBN|978-1570273575}}
*''Cauda Pavonis: Esoteric Antinomianism in the Yezidi Tradition'' (2019) {{ISBN|978-1945147401}}
*''Hoodoo Metaphysics'' with [[Tamara Gonzales]] (Bearpuff Press, 2019) {{ISBN|978-0-9829039-5-7}}
*''False Messiah: Crypto-Xtian Tracts and Fragments'' (2022) {{ISBN|978-1735043210}}
*''Peacock Angel: The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis'' (2022) {{ISBN|978-1644114124}}

==References==
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== Further reading ==

{{Portal|Philosophy}}
* Rabinowitz, Jacob "Blame It On Blake: A Memoir of Dead Languages, Gender Vagrancy, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso & Carr" (2019), {{ISBN|1095139053}}. Section 6 (comprising 4 chapters, pages 155–179) concerns Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey
* Greer, Joseph Christian. "Occult Origins: Hakim Bey's Ontological Post-Anarchism." Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 2 (2014).
* Sellars, Simon. "Hakim Bey: repopulating the temporary autonomous zone." Journal for the Study of Radicalism 4.2 (2010): 83–108.
* Armitage, John. "Ontological anarchy, the temporary autonomous zone, and the politics of cyberculture a critique of hakim bey." Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 4.2 (1999): 115–128.
* Ward, Colin. "Temporary Autonomous Zones." Freedom, (1997).
* Bookchin, Murray. Social anarchism or lifestyle anarchism: an unbridgeable chasm. Edinburgh: AK Press, 1995.
* Shantz, Jeff. "Hakim Bey's Millenium." Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research 15 (1999).
* Rousselle, Duane, and Süreyya Evren, eds. Post-anarchism: a reader. Pluto Press, 2011.
* {{Cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Leonard |title=Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchism |journal=Journal for the Study of Radicalism |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=109–137 |date=2010 |issn=1930-1189 |jstor=41887660 |df=mdy-all |doi=10.1353/jsr.2010.0009 |s2cid=143304524 }}

==External links==
{{wikiquote|Hakim Bey}}
* [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/07/express/an-anarchist-in-the-hudson-valley-br-pet July 2004 interview] from ''[[The Brooklyn Rail]]''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041031030622/http://www.commoncontent.org/catalog/audio/speech/3700/ Audio of 1993 talk] featuring Hakim Bey
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080603122722/http://www.rootsofrebellion.org/index.asp?pagemode=I&ID=127 Roots of Rebellion audio interview] with Hakim Bey
* [https://www.academia.edu/9121109/Hakim_Bey_Chapter_43_The_Occult_World Christian Greer, 'Hakim Bey', Chapter 43 in Christopher Partridge (ed.), ''The Occult World''] (2014)
* [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/06/art/hakim-bey-with-jarrett-earnest Living Under Sick Machines] (2014)

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