Published March 18, 2010
by iris_author
The Distinguished Critical Thinkers in World Politics Seminar Series
War on ... What? Security as Pacification
Mark Neocleous
Time: Thursday, 18 March 2010
2:30–4:30 pm
Location: Room 519, Fifth Floor
York Research Tower
Mark Neocleous brings together two concepts with very different histories. On the one hand, what is probably the major political fetish of our times: security. On the other hand, a concept about which nowadays virtually nothing is ever said: pacification. The paper will explore the ways in which these terms resonate through their early history, with the aim of unravelling the logic of pacification to contemporary security politics. In doing so, Professor Neocleous will criss-cross through the terrains of war and peace, and law and police, making links between original accumulation and the current war on 'terror'.
Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy and Head of the Department of Politics and History at Brunel University, UK. His most recent book is Critique of Security (2008). His earlier books include The Monstrous and the Dead (2005); Imagining the State (2003); The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power (2000); Fascism (1997); and Administering Civil Society: Towards a Theory of State Power (1996). He is a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical Philosophy.
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