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temporary autonomous zone, from Hakim Bey's TAZ: Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism. Opposite of a PAZ which is a permanent autonomous zone. Any temporary liberated space (ie, a squat, a street for a party, a phonebooth for a prank/art sabotage
The women made a circle of yurts in the field and assigned armed guards to the perimeter so that their TAZ might be a safe place for the hellraising weekend to follow.
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