[Five different handbills and posters published by Upshot]

San Francisco: Upshot, 1980. Oregon native Paul Zerzan attended Stanford and SF State but dropped out of USC before completing his dissertation in history. He worked for a welfare agency and with union movements in San Francisco before entering the local anarchist and situationist milieu. In the 1980s he went on to become a prominent theorist of the anti-civilization movement, arguing that the hunter-gatherer stage of prehistory was mankind's only successful adaptation to the environment. His work attracted more notice after he announced his support for the doctrine of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, though he opposed Kaczynski's method of mail bombings. He was also widely interviewed as a de-facto spokesman for the anarchist "black block" demonstrators at the WTO in Seattle, 1999. These leaflets co-produced with his partner Paula preserve an early stage in his circle's rejection of technology and civilization. Contains the following items:. 1. All in all, it's just another brick in the wall [handbill]. San Francisco: Upshot, [1980]. Single 8.5x11 sheet printed both sides, penciled note indicates it was received in 1980. (A critique of recent publications derived from the Pro-Situ milieu in the US.)

2. All Isms are Wasms. [1977]. 8.5x11 inch handbill. "The insurrections in daily life have so far made themselves public as primarily a crisis of participation. The decline of productivity, of voting, of union allegiance, and of other forms of self-humiliation is becoming manifest as a pervasive challenge to authority and ideology, in general. What is of even greater interest are the deep weaknesses of an insane world, which exposed make active adventures in living as possible as they are necessary."

3. Memo: To all employees [handbill]. 1978. 8.5x11 inch handbill, some toning and handling. Anonymous, but uses the PO Box of Upshot, Paula and John Zerzan's group. "Now it is too late, we can delude ourselves no longer. The system is failing because you have refused to sacrifice yourselves."

4. On the genesis of work: the revolt against art. (197-) 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides; fold crease, otherwise very good.

5. Quality of Life Comix. "Why work?" Part one of an examination of work, its impact on our lives and new concepts of worker participation. [1976]. 8.5x14 inch handbill, very good. Penciled note indicates it was distributed in 1976.
"All that is separate from us and our individual experiences - parties, ideologies, unions, art - all that seeks to define, represent, or otherwise restrain us, must be destroyed...