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; 6) in Portuguese translation here.

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.