Who Can Still Cultivate the Uncomfortable? - Scrutiny #2: An Anarch Journal of Review
Scrutiny is a lucidity pact. Not an ideology, but a form which we take towards all things. To our own ideas. To the past. To the numb future. In these pages the rampant contradictions and divergences have a thin veil of warfare. Even at the smallest level there must be violence against the culture, against the image, against the robot, against its knowledge and its material. Who are the last agents who can still summon this near-exterminated, irrational violence? Who can still cultivate the uncomfortable? Scrutiny is the engine, powering us towards the receding cliffs of rupture.
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PIU 6 is here
Plastic in Utero: Anti-Civ Anarchy Reborn from the Compost of Wasteland Modernity issue 6 is out! Hope, nihilism, optimism and pessimism are on the agenda. $3/copy if mailed, free to prisoners, free if you find us tabling!
From the intro:
Plastic in Utero: Anti-Civ Anarchy Reborn from the Compost of Wasteland Modernity (PIU) is back in issue #6 for Winter 2025. This issue came out a little late, pending a delayed submission (Anews note: it never came, so, oops...) and continued editorial work.
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I Couldn’t Think Any Less Of You (Than You Already Think Of Yourself)
Refusing The Great Resignation
I couldn’t think any less of you than you already think of yourself. I am not talking about your hyper-inflated superficial self-worth that comes from identities, entitlement, social currency, or proficiency in the endless meaningless tasks and expectations that make up the techo-post-modern nothingness. I am, quite contrarily, talking about the intrinsic value you place on your very life, your intimate connection to the organic processes around and through you, and the unique meaningfulness in co-creating it. You may confuse it all in some sort of boiled frog cyber-soup half-baked blissed-out glossy plasticity, but from this side of things, its pretty fuckin’ clear. The Great Resignation is here. I refuse. Do you?
Back to Basics: 325 and the Renewed Critique of Technological Civilisation
From Global Network on Extremism and Technology by Mauro Lubrano
This Insight examines the return of 325, an insurrectionary anarchist zine, and the renewed prominence of anti-technology positions in its 13th issue, titled “Back to Basics.” This 76-page-long document, originally released in March 2025 with the PDF online version circulating later in September, articulates a worldview that regards advanced technologies not as neutral tools but as a totalising system of domination, a “mega-machine” that both enslaves and alienates. This framing has increasingly tangible consequences as similar narratives appear in communiqués claiming attacks on technology-related infrastructure and supply chains. The current trajectory of insurrectionary anarchist anti-tech discourse and practice reflects a deeper unease with the accelerating pace of technological change that intersects with pre-existing anarchist, primitivist, and eco-extremist traditions.
TOTW: Wither Theory?
Call to Arms: Insurrectionary Solidarity with Indonesia
From Dark Nights
Communique from FAI Indonesia:
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PIU 5 is here
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.
Return Fire for vol.6 chap.7 & 8 – winter 2024-2025 releases, plus more
From Return Fire
As we celebrate our final magazine chapters (vol.6 chap.7 & vol.6 chap.8), here we present the supplement series to accompany them: featuring a variety of themes relevant to the current volume of Return Fire, from new transcriptions, to short stories, to the expanded zine version of our open letter last year.