Professor Mark Neocleous
Professor - Critique of Political Economy

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I am currently working on a book called The Most Beautiful Suicide.

In February 2025, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police will be published with Verso.

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

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.