Hakim Bey life and biography

Hakim Bey, born Peter Lamborn Wilson in 1945, is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopias.

Author of books:

Science and Technology in Islam (1976, with Leonard Harrow)
Angels (1980)
Loving Boys (1980, editor)
Crowstone: The Chronicles of Qamar (1983)
CHAOS: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism (1985)
Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy (1988)
TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (1991)
Immediatism (1992)
Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics (1993)
Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (1993)
The Little Book of Angel Wisdom (1993)
O Tribe That Loves Boys: The Poetry of Abu Nuwas (1993, editor, translator)
Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes (1995)
Millennium (1996)
Escape from the Nineteenth Century (1998)
Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma (1999)
rain queer (2005)
Gothick Institutions (2005)
Black Fez Manifesto (2008)

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