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Gavin Walker is a Visiting Researcher at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan, and a Ph.D candidate in East Asian Literature at Cornell University. He works on the history of Marxist theory and historiography, modern Japanese intellectual history, and contemporary thought. His recent publications include “Capital’s Originary Threshold: Labor Power as Fold” in Jokyo, May 2010 (in Japanese) and “The Double Scission of Mishima Yukio: Limits and Anxieties in the Autofictional Machine” in positions: east asia cultures critique, 18.1 (Duke University Press). He is currently translating and editing a volume of the selected writings of Uno Kôzô.