T.A.Z.
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                  [Art MovementsFluxus]
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           [Performance Art]

T.A.Z.
T.A.Z. - Temporary Autonomous Zone(Association for Ontological Anarchy)
                                                    (Hakim Bey, chief janitor)               

On this page:  {About Hakim Bey & T.A.Z.}
               {Poetic Terrorism}


                  

 
 
About Hakim Bei & T.A.Z.

Primary reference is to his work:

"T.A.Z. THe Temporary Autonomous Zone. Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism",
2nd Edtion with new preface, ISBN 1.57027.151.8, 


 
 
Poetic Terrorism
      
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WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Un-authorised 
pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, Earth-works as bizarre alien 
artifacts stewn in Sate Parks.

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Burglarise houses, but instead of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist
objects. Kidnap someone and make them happy. [Note 1]

Pick someone at random & convince them they're the heir to an
enormous, useless & amazing fortune -- say 5000 square miles
of Antarctica, or an aging circus elephant, or an orphanage
in Bombay, or a collection of alchemical mss. Later, they will
come to realise that for a few moments they believed in something
extra-ordinary, & will perhaps be driven as a result to seek out
some more intense mode of existence.

Bolt up brass commemorative plaques in places (public or private) 
where you have experienced a revelation or had a particularly 
fulfilling sexual experience, etc.

Go naked for a sign.

Organise a strike in your schoold or workplace on the grounds that
it does not satisfy your need for indolence & spirtual beauty.


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Notes
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[1] This goes back to part of the premise of the movie "The Game". Again, 
    addressing *having* to force someone to take a vacation or to at least
entice them into somehow leaving (if only temporarily) their complacent
"normal world". 

This also ties in with induced participation in games; eg, see: [Sene Ludens]
  

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