Introduction: The Late Foucault and the Allegories of Theory

Gavin Walker is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of The Sublime Perversion of Capital (2016) and Marx et la politique du dehors (2022), the editor of The End of Area: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History (2019, with Naoki Sakai), and The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68 (2020) as well as editor and translator of Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility (2020). He is widely published in critical theory, social and political thought, cultural criticism, and modern intellectual history. His new book, The Rarity of Politics: Passages from Structure to Subject is forthcoming from Verso.