Gavin Walker

Gavin Walker is Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His research and teaching focuses on contemporary theory in its intersections with global intellectual history, Continental philosophy and world literature, politics and aesthetics. He is the author of The Sublime Perversion of Capital (Duke University Press, 2016) and Marx et la politique du dehors (Lux Editeur, 2022), the editor of The End of Area: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History (Duke University Press, 2019, with...See more

Gavin Walker is Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His research and teaching focuses on contemporary theory in its intersections with global intellectual history, Continental philosophy and world literature, politics and aesthetics. He is the author of The Sublime Perversion of Capital (Duke University Press, 2016) and Marx et la politique du dehors (Lux Editeur, 2022), the editor of The End of Area: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History (Duke University Press, 2019, with Naoki Sakai), The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese '68 (Verso, 2020), Foucault's Late Politics, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press, Fall 2022), and 'Ronso no buntai (Ho sei University Press, 2023, with Yutaka Nagahara). A member of the editorial board of the Historical Materialism Book Series (Brill/Haymarket) and positions: asia critique (Duke University Press), he is also the editor and translator of Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility (Verso, 2020). His new book, The Rarity of Politics: Passages from Structure to Subject , is forthcoming from Verso. See less