Mark Your December Calendars: Hakim Bey does New York (again)!
Event #1:
Victor Niederhoffer’s Objectivist Group NYCJunto Sponsors
Anarchist-Pedophile Debate
“Libertarians and Anarchist-pedophiles: Friends or Enemies?”
A lively discussion with featured speakers
Richard Kostelanetz & Peter Lamborn Wilson/ Hakim Bey-- Writers
Richard Kostelanetz is a writer and artist.
---He's been a contributing/advisory editor of many arts journals. He's
the author of over fifty books, among the recent ones are "Political
Essays", "Thirty Years of Visible Writing", and "More On Innovative
Music(ian)s". He's also written over three dozen booklets. He's edited &
introduced over three dozen anthologies and many essays, reviews, poems,
fiction pieces, experimental prose pieces, plays, scenarios, photographs,
and numerical art items. In scores of publications and places, prominent
and obscure around the world, he's created theatrical texts, one person
concerts, texts for composers, choreography scores, one person exhibitions
of prints, books, drawings, audiotapes, canvases, videotapes, photographs,
and had many retrospectives. He's done Hörspiel: extended audio art. He's
also created ten films, hologram exhibitions and over a dozen extended
features for radio, plus many lectures and presentations at institutions
around the world.
Now he will share the podium with the distinguished pedophile scholar Hakim Bey.
Peter Lamborn Wilson a/k/a Hakim Bey has traveled and lived in Morocco, Turkey, Iran,
India, Indonesia, England and Ireland. among other countries, where he wrote poetry, philosophy, translations, and literary criticism that conjoins anarchism and Islamic mysticism with adult-child sexual relations.
---He's an editor, translator, journalist, critic, poet and author of over
30 books translated in 14 languages. He had the radio show "Moorish
Orthodox Radio Crusade" on WBAI from 1988 through 1999.
--He has been an invited lecturer at gatherings of The Second Vermont Republic,
and now he’ll address the objectivists of New York City.
---He is a frequent contributor to the anarchist journal Fifth Estate.
---His best known book is TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, passages of which first appeared in the NAMBLA Bulletin, organ of the North American Man-Boy Love Association
---He taught at Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa
University, Boulder, CO for many years. He's an anarchist activist and lecturer in NYC.
---He has been recommended in major media outlets, including “All Things Considered” on National Public Radio, and the ARTE network of France and Germany.
---He has been an adult counselor at the anarchist youth retreat Dreamtime Village.
---His most recent works are "Sacred Drift -- Essays on the Margins of
Islam" (City Lights), "Avant Gardening -- Ecological Struggle in the City
and the World", editor with Bill Weinberg, "Drunken Universe -- An anthology
of Pers. Sufi Poetry," translated with N. Pourjavady, "Gothick
Institutions", poetry and "Xeroxial Endarchy."
Thursday, December 1 @ 7 pm We socialize from 7 pm.
The meeting begins at about 7:30 with a discussion of current issues and events.
The featured speaker is introduced at about 8.
The meeting continues to about 10.
Discussions are lively, but polite (in keeping with current anarchist customs of NYC, no mention of pedophilia will be allowed). Participation by attendees is highly encouraged.
Back in Our Previous Location--General Society Library
20 West 44th St., NYC --Between 5th & 6th avenues, near Grand Central Terminal
Subway: 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central - 42nd St., B, D, F, V to 42nd St. -
Sixth Ave., or 1, 2, 3, 9, N, Q, R, S, or W to Times Square - 42nd St.
Admission Free NO RESERVATION NECESSARY
JUNTO FOCUSES ON libertarianism, Objectivism -- the philosophy of Ayn Rand ---Hakim Bey’s teachings, and investing.
Event #2:
Anarcho-Poetical - An Evening of Pedophile Manifestoes
Peter Lamborn Wilson’s Annual Chaos Day Lecture
The December Anarchist Forum
On Tuesday, December 13, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's Anarchist Forum will present Peter Lamborn Wilson a/k/a Hakim Bey, who will recite much of his anarchist poetry, which he refers to as "Pedophile Manifestoes." Peter will connect the poems to what is currently wriggling about in the world, answer questions and respond to challenges from the audience.
Read a sample of Peter’s anarchist-pedophile poetry below!
The event will take place at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street, Manhattan (between Bank and Bethune streets). Take an A, C, E, or L train to the 14th Street and 8 th Avenue subway stop or take a 1, 2, or 3 train to the 14 th Street and 7 th Avenue stop.
Everybody is welcome and invited to come and to bring their children. There is no set fee for the presentation, but a contribution to aid LBC/NAMBLA is suggested.
If you have questions, contact the LBC /NAMBLA/Anarchist Forum, 212-979-8353 or e-mail Bob Erler: roberterler @ erols.com
Poetry:
“My Political Beliefs” from NAMBLA Bulletin, June 1986 issue, page 14:
barelegged on his bicycle in the park he rides beneath
a children's fountain droplets catch his hair which
the afternoon makes somewhat bronze, beaded with molten dew
--the sunset over Jersey like an industrial krakatoa:
Newark Gold, Secaucus Red, East Orange.
The button on his blazer: Anarchist Bicyclists
he's in the bathtub, I see
him through a crack in the door playing with himself, he calls me in, shows me
underwater push-ups and sit-ups, except for his gallic buttocks his skin is gilt as the air over the Hudson. The touch of his wet, bath-wrinkled fingers in my hand… but then…
one of his parents clumps down the hall… I suppose to make sure neither of us is raping the other…
[chorus of groans] Ohhh! for a
Buster-Keaton-bomb all spherical & black as coaldust with sweet sparkling with sweet sparkling fuse a mindbomb to
Drop on the Idea of the Family! O for a libertarian isle of runaways! O goodnight
Moon, I am lost, actually lost without him
But I didn't want this to be
Just another poem about hopeless love. Pretend it's a manifesto instead. Down with School! Boy Rule OK! In the land of dreams
No governance exists
But that of anarchs and kings, for dreamers have not yet learned to vote or think past the unfurling of the moment. He touches my cheek, runs delicate fingers through the hairs on my arm.
My liege shatters all Law for a triple kiss.
--Hakim Bey