Orwell felt that socialism (and anarchism) meant an identity of belonging based on equality. It touched him deeply, and the memory remained with rest his life.

Retrieved on May 16th, 2009 from www.metamute.org David Graeber (d.graeber AT gold.ac.uk) undertook his original research in the relations between former nobles and former slaves in a rural community in Madagascar; it was about magic as a tool of politics, about the nature of power, character, and the meaning of history. He has also worked extensively on value theory, and has recently completed...

Introduced in 2009 in [6] bitcoin is one of the first decentralized currency. It’s called crypto-currency, since it uses cryptography to secure transactions and assets. Bitcoin operation is based on so-called public ledgers that can be shortly described as follows. Assume there are two parties Alice and Bob (as usual), such that Alice wants to buy something from Bob. Assume they both have walle...

Dissident Geographies is an ambitious project. In the space of 212 pages Alison Blunt and Jane Wills introduce no less than five radical traditions: mapping the significance that anarchism, Marxism, feminism, the politics of sexuality and postcolonialism have had within and beyond academia. The book lives up to the necessary challenge of being concise whilst not shirking from complex issues. Gi...

In this paper, I call for a re-consideration of anarchism and its alternative ways of conceptualising spaces for radical politics. Here I apply a Lacanian analysis of the social imaginary to explore the utopian fantasies and desires that underpin social spaces, discourses and practices – including planning, and revolutionary politics. I will go on to develop – via Castoriadis and others – a dis...