Established in 1972, Radical Philosophy (RP) is one of the UK's oldest self-published journals of the independent left. This Winter 2021 issue contains an essay by Étienne Balibar on human species as a biopolitical concept; reflection on the racial cadences of fire by Ahmed Diaa Dardir; a translation of an essay by Michele Spanò on Michel Foucault 's 1971-1973 Collège de France lectures on ( Penal Theories and Institutions and The Punitive Society ); a critique of Bernard Stiegler's contributive economy by Solange Manche; newly translated pieces by Alexandre Kojève on Europe and the USSR; an obituary to Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-2021) by Joanna Hodge ; and a number of reviews.