To-day’s talk for Auburn Philosophy Club panel: there are no such things as “memes.” (*) And “memetics,” as a purported science, is in fact nothing more than a modern sophistry. (**)

http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/22/abolish-the-department-of-homeland-secur Of course they should abolish DHS. They should also abolish every single government agency currently under the authority of DHS.

The Gnu’s Room is back up and running, in a new location in downtown Opelika.

Shoot first, ask questions later. If you’re on Las Vegas Metro and your victim is an unarmed black male, then shoot first, ask questions later, take a paid vacation from your job while your buddies “investigate” you.

Regulatory Protectionism & the D.C. Taxi Cartel vs. mass transit and new technological models. http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/22/uber-wars-how-dctried-to-kill-a-great-n

is in New Orleans from now until Sunday evening. (Still stapling booklets though.)

is madly stapling booklets for ALL Distro at tomorrow’s 2013 New Orleans Anarchist Book Fair. As it turns out, the bad news is that there wasn’t time to get this month’s Anarchist Classics layout ready in time to have it at the table. (*) The good is is that that’s because I used that time to make sure that I will have a booklet edition of William Gillis’s “Fifteen Anti-Primitivist Theses.” A booklet edition with a picture of a jetpack.

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Quick question: any Bay Area ALLies or mutualists currently planning to table at the East Bay Anarchist Bookfair later this month (on Oct 26)? William Abe Mgna?

Civil wars are not “power vacuums.” They are power plenums. The problem isn’t that there’s too few people wielding power within the territory; it’s that there are even more people than usual wielding power, without leaving any room for any other kind of sociality. And they are all wielding power in a death-struggle to see who can hold onto it at the end of the day. When the Wehrmacht and the SS rolled across Poland, there was a violent contest as to who would control central Europe, and a lot of people didn’t know from day to day which government would be in control of the area where they lived; but if you think that the war was an example of anarchy, or of a “power vacuum,” then it seems to me you are using words without much meaning.