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* [[20th-century philosophy]]
* [[21st-century philosophy]]
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|name = Peter Lamborn Wilson
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|death_date = {{death date and age|2022|5|22|1945|10|20}}
|death_place = [[Saugerties, New York]], U.S.
|resting_place = Woodstock Artists Cemetery in [[Woodstock, New York]]
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* [[Post-anarchism]]
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| awards = [[Firecracker Alternative Book Award]], 1996 (for ''Pirate Utopias'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|title=Firecracker Alternative Book Awards|work=ReadersRead.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304133738/http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|archive-date=Mar 4, 2009}}</ref>
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'''Peter Lamborn Wilson''' (October 20, 1945 – May 22, 2022) was an American [[anarchist]] author and poet, primarily known for his concept of [[Temporary Autonomous Zone]]s, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Marcus|first=Ezra|date=2020-07-01|title=In the Autonomous Zones|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/style/autonomous-zone-anarchist-community.html|access-date=2021-08-29|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630214924/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/style/autonomous-zone-anarchist-community.html|url-status=live}}</ref> During the 1970s, Wilson lived in the [[Middle East]] and worked at the [[Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy]] under the guidance of Iranian philosopher [[Seyyed Hossein Nasr]], where he explored mysticism and translated Persian texts. Starting from the 1980s he wrote numerous political writings under the [[pen name]] of '''Hakim Bey''', illustrating his theory of "ontological anarchy".
His style of anarchism has drawn criticism for its emphasis on individualism and mysticism, as did some of his writings about [[pederasty]], which he later regretted.<ref name=memoriam/>
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Wilson travelled on to Pakistan. There he lived in several places, mixing with princes, Sufis, and gutter dwellers, and moving from teahouses to opium dens. In [[Quetta]] he found "a total disregard of all government", with people reliant on family, clans or tribes, which appealed to him.<ref name="Knight" />
Wilson then moved to Iran where that he developed his scholarship. He translated classical Persian texts with French scholar [[Henry Corbin]], and also worked as a journalist at the ''Tehran Journal''. In 1974, [[Farah Pahlavi|Farah Pahlavi Empress of Iran]] commissioned her personal secretary, scholar [[Hossein Nasr|Seyyed Hossein Nasr]], to establish the [[Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy]]. Nasr offered Wilson the position of director of its English language publications, and editorship of its journal ''Sophia Perennis'', which Wilson edited from 1975 until 1978.<ref name="Knight" /> He would go on to also publish on the [[Ni'matullāhī]] Sufi Order and [[Isma'ilism]] with [[Nasrollah Pourjavady]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pourjavady |first1=Nasrollah |last2=Wilson |first2=Peter Lamborn |title=Ismā'īlīs and Ni'matullāhīs |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1595401 |journal=Studia Islamica |pages=113–135 |doi=10.2307/1595401 |date=1975|issue=41 |jstor=1595401 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite book |last1=Pūrǧawādī |first1=Naṣrallāh |last2=Wilson |first2=Peter Lamborn |last3=Nasr |first3=Seyyed Hossein |title=Kings of love. The poetry and history of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order |date=1978 |publisher=Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy |location=Teheran |isbn=978-0877737339}}</ref>
Following the [[Iranian Revolution]] in 1979, Wilson lived in New York City, sharing a brownstone townhouse with [[William Burroughs]], with whom he bonded over their shared interests. Burroughs acknowledged Wilson for providing material on [[Hassan-i Sabbah]] which he used for his novel ''[[The Western Lands]]''.<ref name="Knight" />
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His ''Temporary Autonomous Zones'' work has been referenced in comparison to the "[[free party]]" or [[teknival]] scene of the [[rave]] subculture.<ref name="Maas2015">{{cite book|last=Maas|first=Sander van|title=Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U0eHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA231|year=2015|publisher=Fordham University Press|isbn=978-0-8232-6439-1|page=231|access-date=2017-09-05|archive-date=2021-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427164649/https://books.google.com/books?id=U0eHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA231|url-status=live}}</ref> Wilson was supportive of the rave connection, while remarking in an interview, "The ravers were among my biggest readers ... I wish they would rethink all this techno stuff — they didn't get that part of my writing."<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/07/express/an-anarchist-in-the-hudson-valley-br-pet | title=An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley | journal=Brooklyn Rail | date=July 2004 | access-date=2009-09-26 | archive-date=2015-04-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428232100/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/07/express/an-anarchist-in-the-hudson-valley-br-pet | url-status=live }}</ref>
According to Gavin Grindon, in the 1990s, the British group [[Reclaim the Streets]] was heavily influenced by the ideas put forward in Hakim Bey's ''The Temporary Autonomous Zone''. Their adoption of the carnivalesque into their form of protest evolved eventually into the first "global street party" held in cities across the world on May 16, 1998, the day of a G8 summit meeting in Birmingham. These "parties", explained Grindon, in turn developed into the Carnivals Against Capitalism, in London on June 18, 1999, organized by Reclaim the Streets in coordination with worldwide antiglobalization protests called by the international network [[Peoples' Global Action]] during the [[25th G8 summit]] meeting in Cologne, Germany.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gavin |first=Grindon |date=January 2020 |title=Carnival against the Capital of Capital: Carnivalesque Protest in Occupy Wall Street |doi=10.33823/jfs.2020.2.1.47 |journal=Journal of Festive Studies |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=147–148 |doi-
In 2013, Wilson commented on the [[Occupy Movement]] in an interview with David Levi Strauss of ''[[The Brooklyn Rail]]'':
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