After shooting THE NET, Lutz Dammbeck sets out on another research trip. Together with Sabine Schenk, he visits the American writer and theorist Peter Lamborn Wilson, better known as “Hakim Bey”. The aim: an in-depth discussion about the ideas behind his influential book “T.A.Z. – The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”. During the discussion, the conversation revolves around the philosophical and political concepts of anarchy and counterculture, but also around the influence of Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, on our understanding of technology and society. The connection between Hakim Bey's concepts of autonomous zones and Kaczynski's anti-technology ideology raises questions about the limits of freedom, control and resistance in the modern world. Other topics of the interview include Islam, medieval mysticism, especially the thought of Nicholas of Cusa (Cusanus), and the work of AI pioneer Marvin Minsky, who was one of the driving forces behind early artificial intelligence research. The tensions between technology, mysticism and political resistance form the core of this unique conversation. The interview was originally intended as additional material for a planned website about THE NET. But the visit to Hakim Bey develops into an independent film essay that deepens Dammbeck's critical examination of digital control, utopian thinking and the tension between technology and anarchy. THE NET_A VISIT TO "HAKIM BEY" adds another piece to the Dammbeck puzzle – a reflection on radical theory, subversive currents and the struggle for intellectual autonomy in an increasingly digitized world.
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Lutz Dammbeck talks with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) about the T.A.Z., Ted Kaczynski, Islam, Marvin Minsky, Cusanus and natural philosophy.
After shooting THE NET, Lutz Dammbeck sets out on another research trip. Together with Sabine Schenk, he visits the American writer and theorist Peter Lamborn Wilson, better known as “Hakim Bey”. The aim: an in-depth discussion about the ideas behind his influential book “T.A.Z. – The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”.
During the discussion, the conversation revolves around the philosophical and political concepts of anarchy and counterculture, but also around the influence of Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, on our understanding of technology and society. The connection between Hakim Bey's concepts of autonomous zones and Kaczynski's anti-technology ideology raises questions about the limits of freedom, control and resistance in the modern world.
Other topics of the interview include Islam, medieval mysticism, especially the thought of Nicholas of Cusa (Cusanus), and the work of AI pioneer Marvin Minsky, who was one of the driving forces behind early artificial intelligence research. The tensions between technology, mysticism and political resistance form the core of this unique conversation.
The interview was originally intended as additional material for a planned website about THE NET. But the visit to Hakim Bey develops into an independent film essay that deepens Dammbeck's critical examination of digital control, utopian thinking and the tension between technology and anarchy. THE NET_A VISIT TO "HAKIM BEY" adds another piece to the Dammbeck puzzle – a reflection on radical theory, subversive currents and the struggle for intellectual autonomy in an increasingly digitized world.