We have learned that poet and philosopher Peter Lamborn Wilson passed away on May 22. Wilson was an, at times controversial, anarchist. He is perhaps best none for his concept of Temporal Autonomous Zones (TAZ)—temporary spaces that elude control structures. Wilson spent much of the 1970s living in the Middle East where he was exposed to Persian mysticism. He also wrote under the pen name Hakim Bey.
Somewhere I have a nicely queer zine he issued from the “Moorish Orthodox Church” circa 80s. Though with our house still upset from Ida, I can’t lay my hands on it today. It will turn up, no doubt, serendipitously.
Shiv Mirabito of the Woodstock Shivastan Poetry Ashram, in Woodstock, New York where Wilson spent his later years, held an impromptu memorial and celebration.
Peter Lamborn Wilson Reads: Neo Pastoralist Manifesto + Appendix TPZ
Wilson’s latest book Peacock Angel: the Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis will appear later this year from Destiny Books.