- Works of Hakim Bey
Courtesy of the Sacred Hedonic Conspiracy
- Advertisement by Hakim Bey
A preface of sorts to "Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological
Anarchy"
- Against Multiculturalism by Peter Lamborn Wilson
"Let there be no mistake: multiculturalism is a strategy designed
to save 'America' as an idea, and as a system of social control...
The trouble is that the theory itself emanates neither from the
Right nor Left nor Center. It emanates from the top. It's a
theory of control."
- Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics by Hakim Bey
- also here?
"Does Taoism have a 'metaphysics'?"
- Amour Fou by Hakim Bey
"Amour fou is not a Social Democracy, it is not a Parliament of Two.
The minutes of its secret meetings deal with meanings too enormous
but too precise for prose."
- Applied Hedonics by Hakim Bey
- Architectonality of Psychogeographicism or The Hieroglyphics of Driftwork by Hakim Bey
"Who can blame us for harboring both a nostalgia & and
insurrectionary desire for the narrow winding alleys, shadowy
steps, covered ways & tunnels, middens & cellars of a city
which has designed itself - organically, unconsciously -
within an æsthetic of festive & secret conviviality,
& of the curvacious negentropic mutability of memory
itself?"
- Art Sabotage by Hakim Bey
"A.S. goes beyond paranoia, beyond deconstruction - the ultimate
criticism - physical attack on offensive art - aesthetic
jihad... A.S. seeks to damage institutions which use art to
diminish consciousness & profit by delusion... MUZAK is
designed to hypnotize & control - its machinery can be
smashed."
- The Assassins by Hakim Bey
"The attar of Hassan-i Sabbah's propaganda seeps into the criminal
dreams of ontological anarchism, the heraldry of our obsessions
displays the luminous black outlaw banners of the Assassins."
- BEY TALK 18. 3. 95 by Hakim Bey
An interview with Hakim Bey and users of Public Netbase - 18 March
1995.
- Boundary Violations by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here
New professional jargon always provides the semanticist/sociologist
a golden opportunity to unpack hidden political and psychological
content from tell-tale words and phrases - and 'boundary violation'
is a veritable trick suitcase - a richness of embarrassments."
- Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here
A collection of essays first published in 1985.
- Chaos by Hakim Bey
"Not only have the chains of Law been broken, they never existed;
demons never guarded the stars, the Empire never got started, Eros
never grew a beard."
- Chaos Myths by Hakim Bey
"In our world Chaos has been overthrown by younger gods, moralists,
phallocrats, banker-priests, fit lords for serfs. If rebellion
proves impossible then at least a kind of clandesting spiritual
jihad might be launched."
- Crime by Hakim Bey
"The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul
different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat -
& as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law
garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal
middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal &
be prepared to act like one."
- Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here
Eleven essential guides to immediate living.
- The Criminal Bee by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here
"Since Nietzsche's time law has perhaps mutated from a complex but
many-dimensional tool of the oppressor class to the subtle, fatal,
all-pervasive self-image of the spectacle."
- Cybernetics & Entheogenics: From Cyberspace to Neurospace by Peter Lamborn Wilson
- also here
"The internet is interesting to me because it seems to have a
liberatory potential - we want to find out its psychedelic aspect.
I personally am getting more and more pessimistic; the trajectories
all seem to end in a reduction of our autonomy."
- The Dinner Party by Hakim Bey
- Evil Eye by Hakim Bey
- also here
"The Evil Eye - mal occhio - truly exists, & modern
western culture has so deeply repressed all knowledge of it that
its effects overwhelm us & are mistaken for something else
entirely."
- Extra Quotes by Hakim Bey
- Globalism, Tribalism and Autonomy
A conversation between Peter Lamborn Wilson and Konrad Becker
- "Gone to Croatan" by Hakim Bey
"We have no desire to define the TAZ or to elaborate dogmas about
how it must be created."
- Hakim Bey vs. Enzo23
An interview by Enzo23
- Hakim Bey: The Taz and You
An interview by Bruce Young from Cyber-Psychos AOD #6
- The Information War by Peter Lamborn Wilson
- also here,
and here,
and here,
and here,
and here,
and in RealAudio
"Once the image of Heaven on Earth, the state now consists of no
more than the management of images. It is no longer a 'force' but
a disembodied pattering of information."
- Interview of Peter Lamborn Wilson by Jànos Sugàr
By János Sugár, October 1995
- Interview with Hakim Bey
"As the Red Queen told Alice in Wonderland, you have to entertain
six impossible ideas before breakfast."
- Islam and the Internet: Net-religion, a War in Heaven by Peter Lamborn Wilson
- also here
"It is extremely obvious to me that the internet is a religious
phenomenon."
- Jubilee Saints Project
- also here.
Nominate a Jubilee Saint: Pick up your form on-line!
- The Lemonade Ocean & Modern Times: A Position Paper by Hakim Bey
- also here.
"The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented &
enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of
the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual."
- Manifesto of the Black Thorn League by Hakim Bey
Bring the snakes back to Ireland!
- Media Creed for the Fin de Siecle by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here
"The last thing we need in this struggle are more naïve
theories about seizing the media or boring from within or
liberating the airwaves. Give me one example of a radical take-over
of major media, and I'll shut up and apply for a job at PBS, or
start looking around for a few million dollars."
- Media Hex: The Occult Assault on Institutions by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here,
and here
"I discuss the use of both magic and computers because both exist
in the world I inhabit, and both will be used in the liberating
struggle."
- Media-Space! Opening Speech by Peter Lamborn Wilson
"The Internet is so new, the computer itself is so new that it has
this kind of magic aura, a halo around it. Out of that feeling,
there came certain expectations that were almost messianic: the
feeling that the Internet was going to save us, that the Internet
was out of countrol."
- Millennium by Hakim Bey
"Either we accept ourselves as the 'last humans,' or else we accept
ourselves as the opposition. (Either automonotony - or
autonomy.)"
- Moorish Mail-Order Mysticism by Hakim Bey
- also here
"There's something magical about the mail - voices from the Unseen
- documents as amulets - and something very american,
democratic & self-reliant - mysterious urban folklore - old
ads for AMORC in crumbling yellow magazines..."
- Music as an Organizational Principle by Hakim Bey
- The Net and the Web by Hakim Bey
- The No Go Zone by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here,
and here
"I may very well be romanticizing the NGZ as a possible utopian
topos or site - but then again, I might be inclined to defend the
occasional usefulness of romanticism: - it beats despair. The
NGZ is on the way, whether we dread it or romanticize it."
- Nonja (Simian æsthetics) by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Concerning Orang Utan Lady Nonja, the famous expressionist painter
from the Viennese Zoo.
- The Obelisk by Hakim Bey
"The fact is that any map will fit any territory... given sufficient
violence... These complexes are nothing but unreal estate,
properties to be stripped of assets, vampirized for imagery, propped
up to keep the marks in line, manipulated for profit - but not
taken seriously by grown-ups."
- Obsessive Love: An Introduction by Hakim Bey
- also here
"Religion forbids sexuality, thus investing denial with glamour;
capital withdraws sexuality, infusing in with despair... Romance
will become the perfect two-dimensional obsession of the popular
song and the advertisement, serving the utopian trace within the
infinite reproduction of the commodity."
- Ontological Status of Conspiracy Theory by Hakim Bey
"If conspiracy theory is essentially right-wing, it can only be so
because it posits a view of History as the work of individuals
rather than groups... Anarchism posits that elites are simply
carried by the flow of History and that their belief in their own
power and agency is pure illusion.... Maybe conspiracies don't
work. But we have to act as if they do work."
- Overcoming Tourism by Hakim Bey
"Anyone who's ever witnessed a phalanx of Americans or a busload of
Japanese advancing on some ruin or ritual must have noticed that
even their collective gaze is mediated by the medium of the camera's
multi-faceted eye, and that the multiplicity of cameras, videocams,
and recorders forms a complex of shiny clicking scales in
an armor of pure mediation."
- Paganism by Hakim Bey
"Paganism has not yet invented laws - only virtues."
- The Palimpsest - The palimpsestic theory of theory by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here,
and here
"This essay will be printed in the catalog of a gallery exhibition,
thus perpetuating the irony of calling for the suppression and
realization of art from within the very structure that perpetuates
the alienation of the non-artist and the fetishization of the
artwork. Well, fuck irony."
- Permanent TAZs by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here
"Certain cracks in the Babylonian Monolith appear so vacant that
whole groups can move into them and settle down."
- Pirate Rant by Hakim Bey
- Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes by Peter Lamborn Wilson
- also here
From the 16th to the 19th century, Moslem corsairs from the Barbary
Coast ravaged European shipping and enslaved many thousands of
unlucky captives. During this period, however, thousands of
Europeans also converted to Islam and joined the pirate 'holy war.'
Were these men (and women) the scum of the seas, apostates, traitors
- 'Renegadoes'? Or did they abandon and betray Christendom as a
praxis of social resistance?
- Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey
"Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized
pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien
artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of
stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone & make
them happy. Pick someone at random & convince them they're the
heir to an enormous, useless & amazing fortune..."
- Pornography by Hakim Bey
"If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must
commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that
possess the resonance of terrorism... Pornography has a measurable
physical effect on its readers. Like propaganda it sometimes
changes lives because it uncovers true desires."
- Primitives and Extropians by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here,
and here,
and here,
A critique of anarcho-primitivism.
- The Psychotopology of Everyday Life by Hakim Bey
"The last bit of Earth unclaimed by any nation-state was eaten up
in 1899. "
- Pyrotechnics by Hakim Bey
"Invented by the Chinese but never developed for war - a fine
example of Poetic Terrorism - a weapon used to trigger
æsthetic shock rather than kill... gunpowder more useful
to frighten malign demons, delight children, fill the air with
brave & risky-smelling haze."
- Query: Irish Soma? by Peter Lamborn Wilson
- also here
"I wouldn't even begin to argue that we have 'detected' an Irish
Soma. What we have here is a mere suspicion, not a case."
- Radio Sermonettes by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here,
and here
Radio Sermonettes of the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade Collective.
- Seduction of the Cyber Zombies by Hakim Bey
- Ratholes in the Babylon of Information by Hakim Bey
"The TAZ must be the scene of our present autonomy, but it can only
exist on the condition that we already know ourselves as free
beings."
- SIJIL: The Triple Rose of the Adept Chamber by Hakim Bey
- also here
"All this may seem overly-complex to anyone unfamiliar with the
Moorish Orthodox Church's long-established policy of deliberate
syncretism, positive 'heresy,' anti-hierarchalism and
anti-authoritarianism... We take our stand at the nexus where
religion becomes æsthetic, festal, ludic, and creative -
a source and power for freedom, for both the individual and the
group."
- Sorcery by Hakim Bey
"The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual
greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity -
those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose
their chance at divinity - those who mold themselves blind masks
of Ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own
solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes."
- Summer Land - The Periodic Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here
"The summer camp is not the war, not even a strategy - but it is a
tactic. And unmediated pleasure, after all, is still its own
excuse."
- The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey
- also here,
and here
A number of essays, some of which are also listed separately.
- The Tong by Hakim Bey
"A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for
people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously
marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy."
- Tong Aesthetics, or the City of Willows by Hakim Bey
- also here
"The poesis of a legend for our Tong is no petty business. It
concerns the surface but is far from being 'superficial.'"
- Transcript
- also here
A telephone interview (25 June 1995) by Mordecai Watts
- The Utopian Blues by Hakim Bey
- also here
"The low caste of the musician will of course be dissolved in
utopia - but somehow a certain untouchability will linger, a
certain dandyism, a pride."
- Virtual Enclosures by Peter Lamborn Wilson
"We may legitimately speak of resistance to virtual enclosure and
note some of the alternative models that have been proposed."
- Waiting for the Revolution by Hakim Bey
"In sum, realism demands not only that we give up waiting for 'the
Revolution' but also that we give up wanting it."
- Wild Children by Hakim Bey
"To embrace disorder both as wellspring of style & voluptuous
storehouse, a fundamental of our alien & occult civilization,
our conspiratorial esthetic, our lunativ espionage - this is the
action (let's face it) either of an artist of some sort, or of a
ten- or thirteen-year-old."
- The Will to Power as Disappearance by Hakim Bey
"Here I wish to suggest that the TAZ is in some sense a tactic
of disappearance."