What is a TAZ?
A TAZ is a temporary autonomous zone, a concept first elaborated on by Hakim Bey in his 1990 essay “The Temporary Autonomous Zone.” Bey wrote that a TAZ is hard to define, but that instances of it could be described. Bey was inspired by his study of the instances in history where independent enclaves sprung up, “whole mini-societies living consciously outside the law and determined to keep it up, even if only for a short but merry life.” He was also inspired by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling’s book Islands in the Net, which describes a near-future world filled with autonomous “experiments in living: giant worker-owned corporations, independent enclaves devoted to ‘data piracy,’ Green-Social-Democrat enclaves, Zerowork enclaves, anarchist liberated zones, etc.” Bey thought that these temporary autonomous zones were not only possible in the future, but already existed. Much of the essay is devoted to the discussion of the anarchist potential of developing a WEB to counterattack the Net
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