Professor Mark Neocleous
Professor - Critique of Political Economy

Research area(s)

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). Interviews about the book can be found: 1) on the Millennials are Killing Capitalism website here: MAKC interview with Mark Neocleous on Pacification ; 2) on the New Books Network here: Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police

In 2024 The Security Abolition Manifesto was published as part of the work of The Anti-Security Collective. The book can be downloaded for free here. The book is also available in various languages: 1) in Greek translation here; 2) in Italian translation here; 3) in Turkish translation here; 4) in French translation here; 5) in Spanish translation here. The Portuguese translation is forthcoming.

Recent books include The Politics of Immunity (Verso, 2022), taking my earlier critique of security, the state, order, fear, death and the body politic in a new direction. An interview about The Politics of Immunity can be found on Red Medicine, here: Mark Neocleous-The Politics of Immunity

A second interview about The Politics of Immunity can be found on the New Books Network, here: Mark Neocleous-The Politics of Immunity

In 2021 a new edition of A Critical Theory of Police Power was published by Verso: A Critical Theory of Police Power. This is also available as an audiobook: Critical Theory of Police Power Audiobook

Interviews about A Critical Theory of Police Power can be read:

in English, here: A Plague of Blue Locusts

and another in English here: A Theory of Police Power - Interview with KPFA FM

in Spanish, here: The police we have is the police liberalism wants

and in Greek, here: Capitalism created by police power

There is also a special issue of the journal Social Justice on the book and its impact over 20 years: Social Justice Special Issue on A Critical Theory of Police Power

Various books and essays are available in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, French, Italian and German.