A Conversation with Peter Lamborn Wilson

Peter Lamborn Wilson (b. 1945) is certainly among the most influential anarchist authors of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His books range in subject from heterodox aspects of Islamic tradition, to pirates, to the theme for which he is perhaps most well known, temporary autonomous zones. Under the name "Hakim Bey," he has published numerous provocative works, widely available on the internet, yet he is a strong critic of the web and of computer technology in general. We met on a sunny day in late August and sat in a park, conversing about his personal history, his current analysis in light of the history of the left and of contemporary anarchist perspectives, and the theses that guide his thinking today about the present and the future. It was a wide-ranging, sometimes surprising, sometimes arcane, and sometimes quite amusing conversation. Adapted from the source document.