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Collection: Published by Grim Reaper Books.

Peter Lamborn Wilson (pseudonym: Hakim Bey, born in 1945) is an American anarchist author and poet, primarily known for advocating the concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones. His book CHAOS: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism was published by Grim Reaper Books in 1985.

“What this [book] tells you is not prose. It may be pinned to the board but it’s still alive & wringling. It does not want to seduce you unless you’re extemely young and good-looking (enclose recent photo).

This book distances itself by a certain impassibility of surface, almost a glassiness. It doesn’t wag its tail & it doesn’t snarl but it bites & humps the furniture. It doesn’t have an ISBN number & it doesn’t want you for a disciple but it might kidnap your children.

This book is nervous like coffee or malaria – it sets up a network of cut-outs & safe drops between itself & its readers – but it’s so baldfaced & literal-minded it practically encodes itself – it smokes itself into a stupor.

A mask, an authomythology, a map without placenames – stiff as an egyptian wallpainting nevertheless it reaches to caress someone’s face – & suddenly finds itself out in the street, in a body, embodied in light, walking, awake, almost satisfied.”

- Hakim Bey, NYC, May 1^st-July 4^th 1984 (from: Chaos, chapter 13: Advertisement)

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