Pacification - Social War and the Power of Police

This provocative book offers the first sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. From Stasis to Sovereignty to Social War
Insurgent citizens: stasis becomes us
Seditious blockheads and the giddy people; or,
Did somebody say ‘civil war’?
Social war
2. Securitati Perpetuae: Death, Fear, and the Cunning of Security
‘Security some men call the suburbs of hell’
‘Let every man go about without fear’
Acknowledge your darkness’
‘Death has us by the scruff of the neck’ I: security
3. Th e Art of Well Building
Clear-Hold-Build
‘A brighter and nicer new life’
Social police
4. Kettle Logic and the Fantasy of Containment
Protest contained
Movement restrained
Rage pacified
. . . and hope disappointed
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5. Debt as Pacification
Capital (it fails us now)
Law (it fails us now)
‘Death has us by the scruff of the neck’ II: debt

Index

About the author

Mark Neocleous

Product details

• Authors: Mark Neocleous, Neocleous Mark
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2025
• EAN: 9781804294017
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-401-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Police & security services, Marxism & Communism, Police and security services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance