False Documents

False Documents, by Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey), is a series of "Borgesian" fictions, each pretending to be a "document" from various literary, commercial, or otherwise culturally-pertinent contexts. Together they comprise a tour de force of structural imagination: an intricate reflection on the "alchemy" of creation and dissolution for a contemporary world whose discursive forms tend to obscure as often as illumine. Famous for his writings in anarchist philosophy and practice (including the coining of the phrase "Temporary Autonomous Zone, or TAZ), Hakim Bey again illustrates that only a position outside of history can truly zero-in on its deformed heart, which he does with laughter, insight and poignant care.