Re: AtDtDA23: Right Back in the Ol' Caldo Tlalpeño

[Dave Monroe]

On Nov 26, 2007 9:26 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "a zone ... where runners of contraband operated freely"
>
> Cf. ...
>
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/taz.htm
> http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html

Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone (1985, 1991)

Before the "closure of the map," a good deal of anti- authoritarian
energy went into "escapist" communes such as Modern Times, the various
Phalansteries, and so on. Interestingly, some of them were not
intended to last "forever," but only as long as the project proved
fulfilling. By Socialist/Utopian standards these experiments were
"failures," and therefore we know little about them.

When escape beyond the frontier proved impossible, the era of
revolutionary urban Communes began in Europe. The Communes of Paris,
Lyons and Marseilles did not survive long enough to take on any
characteristics of permanence, and one wonders if they were meant to.
>From our point of view the chief matter of fascination is the spirit
of the Communes. During and after these years anarchists took up the
practice of revolutionary nomadism, drifting from uprising to
uprising, looking to keep alive in themselves the intensity of spirit
they experienced in the moment of insurrection. In fact, certain
anarchists of the Stirnerite/Nietzschean strain came to look on this
activity as an end in itself, a way of always occupying an autonomous
zone, the interzone which opens up in the midst or wake of war and
revolution (cf. Pynchon's "zone" in Gravity's Rainbow)....

http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/taz.htm#labelMusic