From Return Fire
We present the second part of this winter’s double-issue (part i here), and a separate version of the covers if you’re printing yourself. Contents follow:
From Return Fire
Well, it took us considerably longer to get this ready than we’d hoped: adaptation to design advice meant a re-haul of what we’d prepared as the promised forthcoming double-release at the point we printed Return Fire vol.6 chap.6 last year, then additional life events added delays…
Scrutiny is sorely needed, everywhere. That has been our assessment. If we are to move beyond the banal and redundant self-referential mediocrity of this current reality, we need to be far more relationally critical and honest, not only of the horrifying world at large, the varied environments we are part of, and our own thoughts and actions, but most force- fully with the withering anarchist space we still dwell within (somewhat reluctantly and certainly marginally at this point, we suppose).
Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity is taking submissions for issue #5!
We are looking for cutting-edge, creative, & fun perspectives on our current, civilized condition. Issue #5 submissions due: April 30th. Themes are “Why I became an anarchist,” and reflections on nature, urban settings, and direct action.
For those new, Plastic in Utero: a journal of anti-civ anarchy reborn from the compost of wasteland modernity (from now on, PIU) is an extension of the Uncivilized Project, which encompasses the Uncivilized Podcast and Uncivilized Distro. It centers the idea that anarchist ideas/theory can be fun and provocative, not dry and orderly. PIU contributors don’t participate to make a system of thought or propose a blue-print for the masses (well hopefully not, because we won’t encourage that here).
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5bzcrM5BL0
Spotify Pending
This is the first Uncivilized Roundtable, a series of debates and discussions relevant to the anarcho-primitivist and anti-civilization scene. Artxmis will moderate (or try to!) between opposing perspectives. We invite you to suggest guests or topics as well as engage with the discussions in the comments, in threads, and in your day-to-day lives!
Spotify up later
Artxmis and Gavin get together to ramble about the state of the project. New episode this weekend!
Note: To my non-Americans, yes, we used American date notation.
From Idioteq Magazine
Original title: Burning Down the World: Anarchy, Veganism, and Total Liberation with WARZONE DISTRO
Born in 2013, WARZONE DISTRO free zine project, stands at the intersection of nihilist, anti-civilization anarchy, and total liberation, bridging gaps between veganism, straight edge, and insurrectionary thought. WARZONE DISTRO is dedicated to challenge the very foundations of oppression, wherever it festers, and in whatever form.
Original title: Uncivilized Podcast 56-- Evolved Nest: Anarchist Community? with Darcia Narvaez
Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary work centers on the relationship between human and ecological well being, driven primarily by what she calls our evolved developmental niche or evolved nest, which we will get into today. Her most recent book is 2023, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way Of Raising Children And Creating Connected Communities