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Hakim
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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).
Bey onBill 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_
"...only in Classical Physics does Chaos have
anything to do with entropy, heat-death, or decay. In our
physics (Chaos Theory), Chaos identifies with tao
, beyond both yin-as-entropy &
yang-as-energy,, more a principle of continual creation than of
any nihil, void in tthe sense of potentia, not exhaustion. (Chaos
as the "sum of all orders.") "From this alchemy we quintessentialize an
aesthetic theory. Chaote art may act terrifying, it may even
act grand guignol (xref release by John Zorn _Grand Guinol_ CD), but it can never allow itself to be
drenched in putrid negativity, thanatosis, schadenfreude (delight
in the misery of others), crooning over Nazi memorabilia &
serial murders. Ontological Anarchy collects no snuff films & is bored to tears with
dominatrices who spout french philosophy ("Everything is hopeless
& I knew it before you did, asshole. Nyahh!")
- Hakim Bey - _TAZ_
 |
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:
_TAZ_ CD by Hakim Bey and Bill Laswell on Axiom (1994)
track _Primordial Uncarved Block_ by Tribes
Of Neurot
(offshoot of Neurosis) off of _Silver Blood Transmission_ CD
on Release (1995)
- spoken word ambient dub release _The End Of Law_ by Hashisheen
on Sub Rosa (1999)
- 5. _Marco Polo's
Tale_ read by Hakim Bey
- 6. _Pilgrimage To
Cairo_ read by Hakim Bey
- 21. _The Assassins_
(read by Hakim Bey)
"Art tells gorgeous lies that come
true." - Hakim Bey - _Temporary Autonomous
Zone_
-
track _Assassins Of
Hakim Bey_
by Coil
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
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