George S. Rigakos

Mark Neocleous

Security has reached an analytic blockage. The more security seems post-political, post-social, or even post-modern the more it escapes analytic scrutiny. The more security attaches itself to innumerable social relationships the more it becomes the very glue that binds social reality. Social problems become security problems while projects of pacification continue to be legitimized under the rubric of security. To be against security today is to stand against the entire global economic system. If security has become the dominant, perhaps impenetrable concept of our times, then we must start entertaining the impossible. We must begin asking: what would doing anti-security look like? Also contains "Anti-Security: A Declaration" (by Neocleous & Rigakos) Contents: Introduction 7; Anti-Security: A Declaration 15; [1] Security as Pacification, by: Mark Neocleous; [2] 'To Extend the Scope of Productive Labour': Pacification as a Police Project, by: George S. Rigakos; [3] Public Policing, Private Security, Pacifying Populations, by: Michael Kempa; [4] War on the Poor: Urban Poverty, Target Policing and Social Control, by: Gaetan Heroux; [5] 'Poor Rogues' and Social Police: Subsistence Wages, Payday Lending and the Politics of Security, by: Olena Kobzar; [6] Liberal Intellectuals and the Politics of Security, by: Will Jackson; [7] Security: Resistance, by: Heidi Rimke; [8] Security and the Void: Aleatory Materialism contra Governmentality, by: Ronjon Paul Datta; [9] 'All the People Necessary Will Die to Achieve Security', by: Guillermina Seri; Notes on contributors ..".'punches a hole' in the body of the depressingly 'pacified' strand of scholarship that police sociology has become..." - Georgios Papanicolaou, Teeside University

Anti-Security

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

"Un spectre hante l'Europe: le spectre du communisme. Toutes les puissances de la vieille Europe se sont unies en une Sainte-Alliance pour traquer ce spectre: le pape et le tsar, Metternich et Guizot, les radicaux de France et les policiers d'Allemagne..." Un spectre peine silencieusement dans les champs brules par le soleil. Il parcourt des villages dont les places sont poussiereuses. Il trime dur a des corvees sur les planchers crasseux des usines. Il fouille les ordures dans les ruelles des bidonvilles. Il flotte au-dessus des cubicules dresses en rangs serres dans les tours a bureaux. Ou le capitalisme parade, notre spectre le suit sans faire de bruit. Il s'arrete aupres des alienes, des pauvres et des exploites. Il est temoin de millions de hurlements silencieux. Et de plus en plus, nous apercevons ce fantome. Mais pourquoi une version illustree? Simplement pour revivifier le texte. Pour le rendre accessible a une nouvelle audience. Pour nous aider a mieux comprendre notre soif innee pour la promesse de meilleurs lendemains, et pour rencontrer a nouveau un pamphlet politique qui aura forge les fondations ideologiques d'une des epoques la plus idealiste - mais aussi la plus repressive - de l'histoire humaine.

Matérialisme Historique

Le Manifeste du Parti Communiste (Illustré)

"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies..."A spectre toils silently in sun-baked fields. It shuffles through dusty village squares. It slaves amidst the grime and drudgery of factory floors. It picks through the garbage of shanty-town alleys. It floats over office-tower cubicles row upon row. Wherever capitalism has had its parade our spectre follows quietly. It settles amongst the alienated, the impoverished, the exploited. It bears witness to millions of silent screams. More and more, we glimpse that ghost. But why a graphic edition? Put simply, in order to reanimate the text. To make it available to a new audience. To help us better understand our innate yearning for the promise of a better tomorrow and to re-acquaint us with a political pamphlet that forged the ideological foundations for one of the most idealistic yet repressive eras of human history.

George S. Rigakos

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