Professor Mark Neocleous
Professor - Critique of Political Economy
Marie Jahoda 237
- Email: mark.neocleous@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266824
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
Summary
I am Professor of the Critique of Political Economy in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, having joined 明星八卦 in 1994 in what was then a Department of Government. I am a critical theorist who focuses on questions of state and capital, especially as they pertain to police, security, and war. I also have an interest in the political imagination, especially concerning bodies, monstrosity, subjectivity, fear and death.
I am currently working on a book called The Most Beautiful Suicide.
In February 2025, will be published with Verso.
, co-authored as part of The Anti-Security Collective, was published in July 2024 (Red Quill Books) and can be downloaded for free . The book is available in Greek translation . The book will soon be available in Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian.
Recent books include (Verso, 2022).
More detail of my research is given in the links above called 'Research' and 'Selected Publications'. The 'Selected Publications' section lists only my books. Most of my published work, including my books, is available for free on shadow libraries. Much of it is also available either here:
or here:
If there is a publication of mine that you can't find on those sites, email me and I'll do my best to provide it.
Qualifications:
- PhD Philosophy (Middlesex)
- MSc Politics and Sociology (Birkbeck)
- BSc Philosophy and Sociology (City)
Newest selected publications
Neocleous, M. (2025) 'Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police'. London: Verso. ISSN 13: 9781804294017
Neocleous, M. and Boukalas, C. (2024) '螤蟻蠈位畏蠄畏, 伪蟽蠁维位蔚喂伪, 伪蟽蟿蠀谓慰渭委伪: 胃蔚蠅蟻委伪 蔚谓维谓蟿喂伪 蟽蟿慰 蔚蟺蔚蟻蠂蠈渭蔚谓慰 魏蟻维蟿慰蟼'. Athens: Affect Editions. ISSN 13: 978-618-86986-2-8
Neocleous, M. and The Anti-Security Collective. (2024) 'The Security Abolition Manifesto'. Ottawa: Red Quill. ISSN 13: 978-1926958385
Neocleous, M. (2022) 'The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies'. Verso Books. ISSN 10: 183976483X ISSN 13: 9781839764837
Neocleous, M. (2021) 'A Critical Theory of Police Power'. Verso. ISSN 13: 978-1788735209