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

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: , ISBN 3-87877-140-1
• 1982: , 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: , ISBN 3-907522-05-2
• 1991: (2nd ed. 1995), ISBN 3-907522-08-7
• 1991: Europa? Aufhören! A Pamphlet, 42 p., ISBN 3-907522-10-9
• 1992:
• 1994: Kraftwerk 1 co-author with Martin Blum & Andreas Hofer. Paranoia City, Zürich, ISBN 3-907522-14-1
• 1994:
• 1996: , Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 978-3-85869-128-6
• 1997: Kumbi. Die Schrecken des Jahres 1000, Band 2 Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-139-9
• 1998: , ISBN 3-907522-17-6
• 1999: Pukaroa. Die Schrecken des Jahres 1000, Dritter Band Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-172-0
• 2000: , ISBN 3-907522-19-2^[2]
• 2007: (English and German), ISBN 978-1-57027-194-6
• 2008: Neustart Schweiz – So geht es weiter (ed. ). Edition Zeitpunkt, Solothurn 2008, ISBN 978-3-033-01779-5
• 2012: Manetti lesen oder vom guten Leben. A novel , 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[]

• Tucui, Schweizer Radio DRS, 1983

See also[]

References[]

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^{[permanent dead link]}

External links[]

• Paranoiacity.ch
• Baraka.de
• Cosmotop.de
• Lyber-eclat.net
• Archived January 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
• Eipcp.net