Peter Lamborn Wilson

Peter Lamborn Wilson
Wilson, circa 1970s
Born	(1945-10-20)October 20, 1945 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died	May 22, 2022(2022-05-22) (aged 76) Saugerties, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Woodstock Artists Cemetery in Woodstock, New York
Other names	Hakim Bey (pen name)
Awards	Firecracker Alternative Book Award, 1996 (for Pirate Utopias)[2]
Era	Contemporary philosophy 20th-century philosophy 21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy American philosophy
School	Post-anarchism Individualist anarchism[1]
Main interests	Refusal of work Post-industrial society Mysticism Utopianism
Notable ideas	Temporary autonomous zones Pirate utopia
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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 Zones, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control.^[3] 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.^[4]