The League of Endarkenment: Hakim Bey and the Way of Disappearance into Nature

Anthropology of Consciousness 34 (2):278-294 (2023)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Among his later works, Peter Lamborn Wilson—known to many as Hakim Bey—began performing ritual art pieces in Upstate New York, which he referred to as acts of “Endarkenment.” This paper explores Endarkenment from the beginning of its organic growth in the fertile soil of The Temporary Autonomous Zone, to its blossoming as fully‐realized ritual art, nourished by Bey's intention of returning enchantment back to the land. Through parallels in the works of antiquity, Surrealism, Georges Bataille, Giordano Bruno, Djuna Barnes, and others, an adumbration of the body of Endarkenment comes into view at the very moment of its disappearance into Nature, giving an idea of what Endarkenment could be as a fully realized form of internal transformation.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,475

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

In Defense of Kant’s League of States.Kjartan Koch Mikalsen - 2011 - Law and Philosophy 30 (3):291-317.
The endarkenment.R. Alta Charo - 2007 - In Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-08-19

Downloads
10 (#1,183,881)

6 months
4 (#783,550)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Cratylus. Plato - 1997 - In J. M. Cooper (ed.), Plato Complete Works. Indianapolis: Hackett. pp. 101--156.

Add more references