THE ABOLITION OF WORK. The Library at nothingness.org. How to Drop Out. August 2012 Update When I wrote the original essay, my lifestyle happened to be close to the popular myth of dropping out, which was lucky because it attracted more readers, but unlucky because that myth is unrealistic and distracting. I still get emails from people who are excited to ask how I live in a cabin in the woods, or live with no money, things I never claimed to do. My goal may have been to separate myself from society, but only because that seemed like the best way to serve my deeper goal: giant blocks of time when there's nothing I'm supposed to be doing. Now I'm moving toward that goal as more of an insider. For more about how I live now, check out my Frugal Early Retirement FAQ. October 2008 Update "How To Drop Out" has been my most popular piece of writing for more than four years. 1. Seriously, it's good to live differently, to take uncommon paths, to minimize your dependence on a society gone astray. 2. 3.
Now, that doesn't mean you should accept all gifts. 4. 5. 6. 7. The Hermetic Library at Hermetic.com. Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy. Taz1. 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! Chaos. The Disinformation Archive. Anarchism Pamphlets in the Labadie Collection. SpaceHijackers CAke Eaters. Dropping knowledge :: Table of Free Voices.