Hi all, we are happy to announce the delayed arrival of Plastic in Utero #5! Featuring a wider arrange of types of submitted pieces than before, this issue should be highly engaging! :) It 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! This issue is $3 if mailed and free to prisoners. Feel free to distribute.
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.
PIU is $3 mailed. Feel free to copy and distribute!
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Most things are free if not mailed!
* Indicates original works, others may come from other publishers and distros.
Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti-civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity, issue #1* ($3)
Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti-civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity, issue #2* ($3)
Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti-civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity, issue #3* ($3)
Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti-civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity, issue #4* ($3)
Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti-civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity, issue #5* ($3)
Anarchy in Review #1: “Leo Tolstoy” by Luigi Galleani* ($2/Free if ordered with other texts)
Religion is Killing the Earth, Only Spirituality Can Save It by Artxmis Graham Thoreau (English & Spanish versions)* ($3)
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom by Fredy Perlman ($1)
Liberty over Labor: A critique of Bakunin’s Productivism and Hegelianism by Artxmis Graham Thoreau* ($2/Free if ordered with other texts)
Fragments Against Servitude Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 by VOF ($4/set)
Armed Joy by Alfredo Bonanno ($3)
What is Security Culture? by CrimeThinc. ($2)
Racism, Nationalism, and Revolt by Julian Langer ($2)
I Can-Able Myself by Iam Ouroboros from ($1)
War on the American Government: Insurrectionary Anarchist in the Early 20th Century” from Anti-Trump Spit Fire Press ($1)
CLODO: Communiques from the war on computers from Detritus Books ($1)
Uncivilized and Queer: an anti-essentialist critique of gender by Isabel D’Nihil ($2)
Butlerian Manifesto: A Call for the Eradication of AI from the Face of the Earth by Yours For Wild Nature ($1)
Of Lightning & Serpent: An Anti-Tech Sermon by Yours For Wild Nature ($1)
…. and countless copies of flyers and random excerpts we enjoy!
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Comments
im imprisoned by civ. can i…
anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:49
im imprisoned by civ. can i get one free?
imprisoned by metropolis
anon (not verified) Sat, 07/26/2025 - 12:46
In reply to im imprisoned by civ. can i… by anonymous (not verified)
no shit. i live alone in a studio apt that's 10x20 feet. this space doesn't make me feel trapped at all. it's what's outside my urban doors that feels like a prison. toxic combo of pollution, cement, pesticides, asphalt, construction, heat, etc. Since there's nothing to look forward to on my long walks i just do errands and a lot of anarchist/aid flyering for some kind of minimal satisfaction.
What kind of fuck buddies…
anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/18/2025 - 18:30
In reply to imprisoned by metropolis by anon (not verified)
What kind of fuck buddies you get out of flyering, if any?
Zines & even flyers can still be fun stuff to create and spread, but they always had this huge shortcoming of being one-way communications one just can't argue with. They're also like doing jokes on the internet, where you only get a quarter the fun next to be a real-life jester, like me.
Flyering is very engaging…
anonymous (not verified) Fri, 09/19/2025 - 14:29
In reply to What kind of fuck buddies… by anonymous (not verified)
Flyering is very engaging with homeless people who even help if you give them a cigarette and talk and joke around with about stuff.
Ues, our gardens are…
anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/23/2025 - 07:37
Ues, our gardens are subversive and insurgent.
For anyone not in the know,…
anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/17/2025 - 22:18
For anyone not in the know, the last two zines on this list are written by a child molester & scammer. The two zines with the author listed as 'Yours For Wild Nature' aka Pierce Skinner:
www.thetedkarchive.com/library/a-text-dump-on-pierce-skinner
It unfortunately doesn't say
CalvinSmith Sat, 09/20/2025 - 08:12
In reply to For anyone not in the know,… by anonymous (not verified)
what exactly is the basis of those charges, so i can't really draw any conclusions...however, the writing is un-impressive apocalyptic green nonsense, pretending to have a solution to tech society, and on the basis of that alone i would stay away from this project. Imagine trying to start a commune on a discord server, LOL, i even agree with pierce about the nonsense about trying to convert into a rehab center...
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