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Peter Lamborn Wilson

1945 - 2022

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Peter Lamborn Wilson (October 20, 1945 – May 22, 2022) was an American anarchist author and poet, primarily known for his concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control. During the 1970s, Wilson lived in the Middle East and worked at the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy under the guidance of Iranian philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr, where he explored mysticism and translated Persian texts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Lamborn Wilson has received more than 368,894 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Peter Lamborn Wilson is the 917th most popular philosopher (up from 931st in 2019), the 3,893rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,324th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Peter Lamborn Wilson ranks 917 out of 1,267. Before him are Christian von Ehrenfels, Colotes, Antoun Saadeh, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Theodor Gomperz, and David Lewis. After him are Jaimini, Sengzhao, Denis Pétau, Lars Gustafsson, Matthias Bel, and Dirck Coornhert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Peter Lamborn Wilson ranks 248. Before him are Dusty Rhodes, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Bob Seger, Shulamith Firestone, Mimsy Farmer, and Herman van Veen. After him are Neophyte of Bulgaria, Tommy Franks, Werner Schroeter, Bob Balaban, Zoltán Varga, and Michel Vautrot. Among people deceased in 2022, Peter Lamborn Wilson ranks 200. Before him are Shahabuddin Ahmed, Akira Takarada, Gaspard Ulliel, Valery Ryumin, Ronnie Spector, and Edgar Savisaar. After him are Nick Bollettieri, Lando Buzzanca, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Éder Jofre, William Klein, and Philippe Streiff.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Lamborn Wilson ranks 3,893 out of 20,380. Before him are William Stewart Halsted (1852), Paul Reiser (1957), John Marley (1907), Donald P. Bellisario (1935), Ted Williams (1918), and Lenny Bruce (1925). After him are Jay Wright Forrester (1918), John Garfield (1913), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Leslie Jones (1967), Aaliyah (1979), and Muse Watson (1948).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Peter Lamborn Wilson ranks 37. Before him are Mortimer J. Adler (1902), Eric Hoffer (1898), Ted Nelson (1937), Susanne Langer (1895), Donald Davidson (1917), and David Lewis (1941). After him are Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Lysander Spooner (1808), Edmund Gettier (1927), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Harry Frankfurt (1929), and Ram Dass (1931).

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