Peter Lamborn Wilson

Peter Lamborn Wilson (born 1945) (pseudonym Hakim Bey), is an American political and cultural 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. He is an anarchist associated with the post-left anarchy tendency and individualist anarchism.

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