P.M. (author)

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An urban "bolo".
An urban "bolo".

The pseudonym P.M. (the most common initials in the Swiss telephone directory, mostly spelled in lowercase, p.m.) is used by an otherwise anonymous Swiss author (born 1946), best known for his 1983 anarchist / anti-capitalist social utopia bolo'bolo, publishing with the paranoia city verlag of Zürich.

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[edit] Bolo'bolo

A bolo is an autonomous community corresponding to the anthropological unit of a tribe (a few hundred individuals). The name is an example of a fictional auxiliary language (or rather, a basic vocabulary) intended for use in a bolo-based global community, called asa'pili.

asa'pili terms:

  • ibu "individual, person"
  • bolo "community, village, tribe"
  • sila "hospitality, tolerance, mutual aid"
  • taku "personal property, secret"
  • kana "household, hunting party, family, gang"
  • nima "way of life, tradition, culture"
  • kodu "agriculture, nature, sustenance"
  • yalu "food, cuisine"
  • sibi "craft, art, industry"
  • pali "energy, fuel"
  • sufu "water, water supply, well, baths"
  • guno "house, building, dwelling"
  • belo "medicine, health"
  • nugo "death, suicide pill"
  • pili "communication, science, magic, language, media"
  • kene "communal work, communal initiative"
  • tega "district, town"
  • dala "committee, council, assembly"
  • dudi "foreigner, spy, observer"
  • fudo "city, trading area, bioregion"
  • sumi "region, linguistic area, island"
  • asa "earth, world"
  • buni "gift, present"
  • mafa "depot, warehouse"
  • feno "treaty, agreement, trade relation"
  • sadi "market, stock market, fair"
  • fasi "travel, transport, traffic, nomadism"
  • yaka "disagreement, war, violence"

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[edit] References

  • Hakim Bey, Immediatism (1994), ISBN 1873176422, p. 14.
  • Martin d'Idler. »bolo’bolo« (1983) von P. M., UTOPIE kreativ, H. 205 (November 2007), 1066-1071[2]

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