Hans Widmer

Hans Widmer (born 1947), known also by his pseudonym P.M. (taken from the most common initials in the Swiss telephone directory, mostly spelled in lowercase, p.m.) is a Swiss author.[1] He is best known for his 1983 anarchist / anti-capitalist social utopian book bolo'bolo, published with the paranoia city verlag of Zürich.

An urban "bolo"
Abstract glyph for the word and concept bolo
This article is about the author. For other uses, see PM (disambiguation).
For the Swiss swimmer, see Hans Widmer (swimmer).

bolo'bolo

The title of this book refers to the bolo, or an autonomous community corresponding to the anthropological unit of a tribe (a few hundred individuals). This would be the basic social unit in an envisioned utopian-ecological future; its name is an example of a word from the constructed language (or rather, a basic vocabulary of about thirty words) called asa'pili.

Works

Books
  • 1980: Weltgeist Superstar, ISBN 3-87877-140-1
  • 1982: Tripura Transfer, ISBN 3-87877-172-X
  • 1983: bolo'bolo (8th ed. 2003), ISBN 3-907522-01-X; English edition ISBN 0-936756-08-X
  • Karthago, ISBN 3-907522-06-0
  • 1989: Amberland, ISBN 3-907522-05-2
  • 1991: Olten - alles aussteigen (2nd ed. 1995), ISBN 3-907522-08-7
  • 1991: Europa? Aufhören! A Pamphlet, 42 p., ISBN 3-907522-10-9
  • 1992: Europa
  • 1994: Kraftwerk 1 co-author with Martin Blum & Andreas Hofer. Paranoia City, Zürich, ISBN 3-907522-14-1
  • 1994: Lego
  • 1996: Die Schrecken des Jahres 1000, Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 978-3-85869-128-6
  • 1997: Kumbi. Die Schrecken des Jahres 1000, Band 2 Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-139-9
  • 1998: Agbala dooo!, ISBN 3-907522-17-6
  • 1999: Pukaroa. Die Schrecken des Jahres 1000, Dritter Band Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-172-0
  • 2000: Subcoma, ISBN 3-907522-19-2[2]
  • 2007: AKIBA (English and German), ISBN 978-1-57027-194-6
  • 2008: Neustart Schweiz – So geht es weiter (ed. Christoph Pfluger). Edition Zeitpunkt, Solothurn 2008, ISBN 978-3-033-01779-5
  • 2012: Manetti lesen oder vom guten Leben. A novel Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-761-3
  • 2012: Kartoffeln und Computer. Märkte durch Gemeinschaften ersetzen. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-767-5

Theater performances
  • Die Geburt einer Maschine, uraufgeführt: Rote Fabrik, Zürich 1984
  • LEGO, Zürich 1994

Radio drama

References
  1. "NDR.de - Manetti Lesen oder Vom Guten Leben".
  2. Members.blackbox.net

Further reading
  • Hakim Bey (1994). Immediatism. p. 14. ISBN 1-873176-42-2.
  • Martin d'Idler. »bolo'bolo« (1983) von P. M. (in German), UTOPIE kreativ, H. 205 (November 2007), 1066-1071, rosalux.de
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