Professor Mark Neocleous
Department Director for Research

Summary

Mark joined Brunel University in the Department of Government in 1994. Since then he has published numerous books, articles and book chapters. 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. This has most recently resulted in an extensive argument concerning the overlapping modalities of the powers of war and police.

Mark is currently working on three book projects. The first is on The Politics of Immunity, taking his critique of security in a new direction by arguing that the overlapping connections constantly drawn between security and immunity allow us to imagine security through the lens of the autoimmune disease. The second book is a co-authored volume on manhunting and the figure of the fugitive, in terms of both its role in the historical foundation of bourgeois order and its contemporary cultural form. The third book is a new edition of The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power, with new materials and critical commentary by other contributors.

Mark's work has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, French, Italian and German. Mark was for 20 years a member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy, and is a member of the editorial collective of Red Quill Books.

Qualifications:

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