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autonomy in the age of the social net

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Where is the TAZ in the age of Social Software?
Recently I’ve been rereading the writings of Hakim Bey, relishing his musings about the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) and his rants about pirate utopias. It has been five years since I had last thought about Bey and his writings; once considered zeitgeist by many, his […]

Where is the Taz in the age of Social Software?

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Some thoughts for the OpEd that I’m working on:
Hakim Bey writes about the TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone).
In the height of my raving days and the utopic ravings of the new internet society, the buzz around the circles I was associating with was the greatness of the TAZ. All of these lines were being drawn conceptually […]