Professor Mark Neocleous
Professor - Critique of Political Economy

Summary

I am Professor of the Critique of Political Economy in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, having joined Brunel 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.

My most recent book is Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police (Verso, 2025).

In 2024 The Security Abolition Manifesto was published, co-authored as part of The Anti-Security Collective (Red Quill Books). The book can be downloaded for free here. The book is available in Greek translation here. The book is currently being translated into Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian.

Other recent books include The Politics of Immunity (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:

https://brunel.academia.edu/MarkNeocleous 

or here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Neocleous

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)