T. A. Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

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CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM

Chaos, _3_; Poetic Terrorism, _4_; Amour Fou, _6_; Wild Children, _8_; Paganism, _9_; Art Sabotage, _11_; The Assassins, _13_; Pyrotechnics, _14_; Chaos Myths, _15_; Pornography, _19_; Crime, _21_; Sorcery, _22_; Advertisement, _24_

COMMUNIQUES OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY

Communique #1: I. Slogans & Mottos for Subway Graffiti & Other Purposes, _27_; II. Some Poetic-Terrorist Ideas Still Sadly Languishing in the Realm of “Conceptual Art,” _28_; Communique #2: The Kallikak Memorial Bolo & Chaos Ashram: A Proposal, _30_; Communique #3: Haymarket Issue, _32_; Communique #4: The End of the World, _33_; Communique #5: “Intellectual S/M Is the Fascism of the Eighties–The Avant- Garde Eats Shit and Likes It,” _36_; Communique #6: I. Salon Apocalypse: “Secret Theater,” _39_; II. Murder–War–Famine- -Greed, _41_; Communique #7: Psychic Paleolithism & High Technology: A Position Paper, _43_; Communique #8: Chaos Theory & the Nuclear Family, _47_; Communique #9: Double-Dip Denunciations, _48_; Communique #10: Plenary Session Issues New Denunciations–Purges Expected, _50_; Communique #11: Special Holiday Season Food Issue Rant: Turn Off the Lite!, _53_; Special Halloween Communique: Black Magic as Revolutionary Action, _56_; Special Communique: A.O.A. Announces Purges in Chaos Movement, _59_; Post-Anarchism Anarchy, _61_; Black Crown & Black Rose: Anarcho-Monarchism & Anarcho-Mysticism, _64_; Instructions for the Kali Yuga, _72_; Against the Reproduction of Death, _75_; Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism, _78_; For a Congress of Weird Religions, _80_; Hollow Earth, _84_; Nietzsche & the Dervishes, _86_; Resolution for the 1990’s: Boycott Cop Culture!!!, _90_

THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE

Pirate Utopias, _97_; Waiting for the Revolution, _99_; The Psychotopology of Everyday Life, _102_; The Net and the Web, _108_; “Gone to Croatan,” _116_; Music as an Organizational Principle, _124_; The Will To Power as Disappearance, _128_; Ratholes in the Babylon of Information, _132_; Appendix A: Chaos Linguistics, _135_; Appendix B: Applied Hedonics, _137_; Appendix C: Extra Quotes, _138_

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM was first published in 1985 by Grim Reaper Press of Weehawken, New Jersey; a later re-issue was published in Providence, Rhode Island, and this edition was pirated in Boulder, Colorado. Another edition was released by Verlag Golem of Providence in 1990, and pirated in Santa Cruz, California, by We Press. “The Temporary Autonomous Zone” was performed at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, and on WBAI-FM in New York City, in 1990. Thanx to the following publications, current and defunct, in which some of these pieces appeared (no doubt I’ve lost or forgotten many–sorry!): KAOS (London); Ganymede (London); Pan (Amsterdam); Popular Reality; Exquisite Corpse (also Stiffest of the Corpse, City Lights); Anarchy (Columbia, MO); Factsheet Five; Dharma Combat; OVO ; City Lights Review; Rants and Incendiary Tracts (Amok); Apocalypse Culture (Amok); Mondo 2000; The Sporadical; Black_Eye; Moorish Science Monitor; FEH!; Fag Rag; The_Storm!; Panic (Chicago); Bolo Log (Zurich); Anathema; Seditious Delicious; Minor Problems (London); AQUA; Prakilpana.

Also, thanx to the following individuals: Jim Fleming; James Koehnline; Sue Ann Harkey; Sharon Gannon; Dave Mandl; Bob Black; Robert Anton Wilson; William Burroughs; “P.M.”; Joel Birroco; Adam Parfrey; Brett Rutherford; Jake Rabinowitz; Allen Ginsberg; Anne Waldman; Frank Torey; Andr� Codrescu; Dave Crowbar; Ivan Stang; Nathaniel Tarn; Chris Funkhauser; Steve Englander; Alex Trotter. –March, 1991

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