T.A.Z.

The following is Copyright infringement. I don't think the author, Hakim Bey, will mind. In his own words, "all this material...appeared on the early Internet (under the anarchist anti-copyright agreement)..." I imagine if you copy it from this blog and paste it on Google, you'll find enough other versions of it to clear my plagiarizing name under the pretense of precedent.

The following is an excerpt from T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism: Second Edition with New Preface!

"Surely someday soon some real opposition will begin to cohere. A new movement will appear based on both solidarity and difference, as opposed to the sameness and separation of commodity culture and the Global Image. No one can predict the shape of this movement because it will be in some sense post-ideological as well as post-religious: spontaneous, experiential, popular. I suspect it will be passionately Green and somewhat anti-Civilization, with a touch of Luddite technophobia. It will be "poor" and deeply spiritual (not religious but perhaps shamanistic). It will be "social" and resolutely anti-Capitalist. It will probably emerge from the former so-called Fourth World and the cutting edge of resistance to genetic imperialism and corporate neo-colonialism. It will take different forms in different places, avoiding big confrontations, using new guerilla tactics of resistance and opening up new kinds of liberated space/time areas.

"And if we're dreaming, why not dream big? A whole country or bioregion transformed into a Permanent Autonomous Zone? If post-modernism offers us the melancholic freedom to pick and browse the ruins of the Past and salvage whatever shards we may find amusing, why not dig up once again (surrealist archaeology) some of the shattered relics of resistance, revolt...even revolution? Can these antiques ever prove dangerous again? Can we evade or even oppose the Final Enclosure - and learn to create our own Outside?"

xii, T.A.Z., Hakim Bey