
Authored:
_Temporary
Autonomous Zones_ (TAZ)
- Ontological Anarchy And Poetic Terrorism
Autonomedia Press
Immediatism
A psychic paleolithism based on High-Tech - post-agricultural,
post-industrial, "
zerowork,"
nomadic (or "Rootless Cosmopolitan") - a
Quantum
Paradigm Society - this constitutes the ideal vision of the future according
to
Chaos
Theory
as well as "Futurology" (in the
Robert
Anton Wilson/
Timothy
Leary sense of the term).
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Bey on
Bill
Gates
H.Bey:
For example. Is he the
leader of this thing or is he just pushed forward on the wave of some kind
of techno-economic development and if it was not Bill Gates it would be
someone else.
Robert
Anton Wilson likes to quote: "When it is steam engine time it steam engines."
-
Charles
Fort. Like when it is time to rain it rains.
When it is time for steam engines some vast IT produces the steam engine. In
fact we know plenty of examples where the same scientific discovery is made
simultanously by five or six people within minutes around the world. Not because
of some
Jungian
archetypal
anima floating around but because science got to that point. And five or six
people were smart enough to realise it right away. There is also the point that
the first working steam engine was actually built on an incorrect scientific
theory, if I am not mistaken. It was made by someone who thought he was
doing one thing but actually did something else alltogether and it just happened
to be a steam engine. That happens plenty of times too.
The problem with
conspiracy
theory is to believe that there is one particular group of human beings
who are in control of my destiny. That's a philosophical extreme to which
I don't wanna go. On the other side it's obvious that people
do conspire. That there are conspiracies, secret forces behind outward
political shows of power. It is clear that there is not one single
known politician in America who has any real power at all. They are simply
working for big corporations and economic interests like oil, or the global
market itself. The best model is, that there are many, at least several
conspiracies and that they interlock, that they compete, that they melt
into each other, that they separate from each other. If we wanna know what's
going on, if we wanna understand history as it is happening we should know
something about these conspiracies. Again critical consciousness
is a useful tool here.
- _Hakim Bey Talks With Users of Public Netbase 3/18/95_
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There is this issue of how
do you start to create a change within the system. An important element
that has been overlooked. For example a musician, who creates a piece of
music and puts it on a record himself, the responsibility is always kind
of finished once he got it on record, if he goes up far. He doesn't seem
to realize that going from spiritual to material, you must follow the
flow
of your commodity - if you like - right to the people you wanna give it
to. And that is something that is very important to the future of changing
the way the creativity is mediated. In particular when you
focus
on creative things that have the ability to wake people up,
Trance-forms
of music for instance. It's the same with creating anything. Am I
gonna give it to Sony for a deskjob, or am I gonna try to create my own
independence? I have seen a lot of people who have been getting a
record label together, they get a lot of artists on their label and when
the day comes to pay this artists they do not pay these artists. This is
happenning with Techno, actually a lot of the artists have suddenly realized
that, once again a music scene is created of the back of the
underground musicians who never got paid for what they did. Bringing
music back to what it originally was.
Here we are at this great
revolutionary music, where we use crystals and
electricity
to create soundenergy. We have suddenly got this massive change in
music, where you can use any sound you want in the world. And you've broken
the mould that the piano set up, and you suddenly enter into a realm of
pure
frequency
again - rhythm and frequency, from which to build a new structure.
But where is our reference point in the western world? Where is that reference
point for why I'm gonna make this kind of music? And
that's why the
filter
becomes cloudy and thats where it's important to attain an independent
network
for musicians and creative people.
- from _Hakim Bey talks with users of public netbase March 18, 1995_
Essays:
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_TAZ_
CD
by Hakim Bey and
Bill
Laswell on Axiom (1994)
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"Art tells gorgeous lies that come true." - Hakim Bey - _Temporary Autonomous Zone_
And this prince was called
Alamut and was Mohammedan. He had created, in a lovely valley enclosed
between two very high mountains, a beautiful garden, full of every variety
of fruit and trees that could be obtained. Round these plantations were
various palaces and pavilions, decorated with golden ornaments. He had
brought in young girls of perfect beauty and full of charm to live here,
paintings and furniture all made of silk, and they were trained to sing,
to play all sorts of instruments, to
dance,
and above all to make the most seductive advances to men that can be imagined.
This is the reason why the old man had this place built, Mohammed having
said that those who obeyed his will would go to Paradise where they would
find all the pleasures and delights of the world: beautiful women and rivers
of milk and honey, this man wanted to pretend that he could make anyone
he wished enter this very Paradise. No-one could penetrate into
the garden we described,
for they had built at the entrance to the valley a very fortified and impregnable
castle. It could only be entered by a secret road.
"The paleolithism of the future
(which for us, as mutants, already exists) will be achieved on a grand scale
only through a massive technology of the
Imagination,
and a scientific paradigm which reaches beyond
Quantum
Mechanics into the realm of Chaos Theory & the hallucinations of Speculative
Fiction.
~ ~ Hakim Bey, _Temporary Autonomous Zones_
"In more traditional worlds ... I've noticed that people
remain much more attuned to the
languages
of gesture; where there's no TV & "nothing ever happens", people watch people,
people read people... I never knew this till I lived in Asia. Here in America,
people react to you most often on the basis of the idea you project—through
clothes, position (job), spoken language. In the East one is more often surprised
to find the interlocutor reacting to an inner state; perhaps one was not even
aware of this state, or perhaps the effect seems like "telepathy". Most often,
it is an effect of body language."
- Hakim Bey