1st Edition

The Universal Adversary Security, Capital and 'The Enemies of All Mankind'

By Mark Neocleous Copyright 2016
190 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged from within security documents released by the US security state: the Universal Adversary. The Universal Adversary is now central to emergency planning in general and, more specifically, to security preparations for future attacks. But an attack from who, or what?... Read more

Introduction 1. ‘The perpetrator has been named, the Universal Adversary’: On the disgruntled Worker  2. ‘They work faithfully; they’re not afraid of long hours’: On the Zombie  3. ‘The ringleader of Rebellion’: On the Devil 4. ‘An offence against the universal law of society’: On the Pirate       

Biography

Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel University, UK.