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'''''T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone''''' is a book by the [[anarchist]] writer and poet [[Hakim Bey]] (Peter Lamborn Wilson). It was published in 1991 by [[Autonomedia]] and in 2011 by Pacific Publishing Studio ({{ISBN|978-1-4609-0177-9}}). 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.<ref>{{cite book | last = Gray | first = Chris | title = Cyborg Citizen | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 0-415-91978-9 |page=47}}</ref>

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.'"<ref>{{cite web | title=Permanent TAZs | author=Hakim Bey| author-link=Hakim Bey |url=http://dreamtimevillage.org/articles/permanent_taz.html | work=Dream Time Village | date=Winter 1994 | access-date=7 December 2008}}</ref> Hence, the concept of the permanent autonomous zone.

The titular section is divided up into the following subsections:
# [[Pirate Utopia]]s
# 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 ==
* [[List of books about anarchism]]

== References ==
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== Further reading ==

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* {{Cite book |last1=Anders |first1=Freia |editor-last1=Fahlenbrach |editor-first1=Kathrin |editor-last2=Klimke |editor-first2=Martin |editor-last3=Scharloth |editor-first3=Joachim |chapter=Creating Temporary Autonomous Zones |title=Protest Cultures: A Companion |pages=406–413 |date=2016-03-01 |language=en |isbn=978-1-78533-149-7 |publisher=Berghahn Books |chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781785331497-047/pdf?licenseType=restricted |df=mdy-all }}
* {{Cite news |last1=Marcus |first1=Ezra |title=In the Autonomous Zones |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2020-07-01 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/style/autonomous-zone-anarchist-community.html |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all }}

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==External links==
*[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism Full text of ''T.A.Z.'']
*[https://archive.org/details/HakimBeyRobertAntonWilsonTAZTheTemporaryAutonomousZone T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone free audio version at Archive.org]

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