In this issue:

Contents: 157 Contents Page
– Radical Philosophy

Commentary: Lash out and cover up
Austerity nostalgia and ironic authoritarianism in recession Britain
– Owen Hatherley

Article: William James: An ethics of thought?
– Isabelle Stengers

Article: Theatre and the public
Badiou, Rancière, Virno
– Simon Bayly

Article: They the people
Problems of alter-globalization
– Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Article: The involution of photography
– Andrew Fisher

Reviews: 157 Reviews – Harry Harootunian, Steve Hinchliffe, Douglas Spencer, Olena Kobzar, David Macey, Phillip Cole and Antonio Venezia

News: 157 News
Iran and the Left, Academic freedom in California?, Immigration raid on SOAS
– Sophia Marie Hoffmann, Daniel Olmos, Maryam Griffin and NK