Mark Neocleous

Qualifications

• PhD Philosophy (Middlesex)
• MSc Politics and Sociology (Birkbeck)
• BSc Philosophy and Sociology (City)

Personal Biography

Mark joined Brunel University in the Department of Government in 1994. Since then he has published numerous books and articles. His most recent work has been towards the development of a critique of security, taking his earlier work on the state, the fabrication of order and the political mobilization of fear in a new direction. His current project is a work of counter-strategic thinking, being developed through a critical exploration of war and peace and a revitalization of the category ‘pacification’. His work has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, French, Italian and German. Mark is on the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy, and is a member of the editorial collective of Red Quill Books.

Research Overview

A critical theorist who focuses on questions of state power, especially as they pertain to police, security and war. I also have an interest in the political imagination, especially concerning monstrosity, subjectivity and death.

Director, Social and Political Thought Research Group

Current Projects

Current work is a piece of counter-strategic thinking through a critical engagement with the concepts of war and peace, police and pacification, and the logic of capital accumulation. Along with some colleagues I have formed a network of scholars working around the theme of ‘anti-security’, set up to challenge the hegemonic power of security politics in all its guises (especially those that claim to be ‘critical’).

Recently Completed Projects

Critique of Security

PhD Supervision

Ayshwarya Rajah: Critique of Liberal Peace in Sri Lanka

Nathaniel Boyd: Hegel, Marx and the Political

Undergraduate Programmes

Module convenor or co-convenor

• Central Themes in Political Thought (Level 1)
• Marx and Marxism (Level 3)

Module contributor

• Revolution and Violence in Early Modern Thought
• Enlightenment and Revolution

• Head of Politics and History

• Editor Radical Philosophy
• Editorial Advisory Board, Alternate Routes journal
• Editorial Advisory Board, Red Quill Books
• External Examiner, University of East London