PLASTIC IN UTERO no.5

Features an interview with a member of Wind in His Hair , lots of photography, a new column by the editor titled "Latter-Day Luddite Lowdown" (tracking technology news and technocrat dramas) and much more!

From the preface:
For those who are new, Plastic in Utero: Anti-Civ Anarchy Reborn From the Compost of Wasteland Modernity—or PIU for short—is, aside from its self-important title, a zine of confrontational, creative, and subversive anarchy. It is also an extension of the Uncivilized Project, which encompasses the Uncivilized Podcast and Uncivilized Distro. PIU features all sorts of submissions, from essays to visual art. Each issue has a theme or topic, but these are non-obligatory, more like suggestions.
I aim to keep this introduction short.

The themes and topics for Issue 5 are “nature writings,” “urban writings,” “How I became an anarchist” and other personal narratives. This issue’s aim was to be less theory focused and more a reminder of what we are fighting for (or against). Sometimes, it is easy to get lost in the theory and become philosophers, losing sight of where the awakenings all began.

For many, Nature is their ideal, their focus, their god. For others, human autonomy and even survival is more important. Yet, for others still, it is a visceral disgust with AI, urbanization, and the placated masses that moves them. All of that can be found in these pages. For myself, all of this is part of my hatred for civilization. I am reminded of Paul Shepard’s notion, “The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.” We need self-actualization, self-fulfillment. This cannot happen, despite what the modernists tell us, inside the prison that is civilization. We are motivated by a deep love, but we are also very, very pissed off. Perhaps these writings may speak to those without the words yet to express those feelings.