CFP: Artists & Philosophers as Criminals (Melbourne/Sydney: mongrel matter)

Our new open book will revolve around the tenuous concept of crime (as a limit) in light of:

- the lives and works of artists & philosophers subjected to criminalisation/persecution

- or who happened to become artists/philosophers as a result of criminalisation/persecution

- or also the motives found in their works that will help us understand criminality in lucid ways

Examples are numerous: Ai Weiwei, Charles Bronson, Angela Davis, Jean Genet (taken), Krystian Bala, Anne Perry, Gregory Corso, Bernard Stiegler (taken), 2Pac, Jack Unterweger, Ingrid van Bergen, Sid Vicious, Frantz Fanon (taken), Alan Turing, Simone Weil, Karl Schwesig, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Berkman, Oscar Wilde, Paul Verlaine, Pierre François Lacenaire, Denis Diderot, Benedict Spinoza, Caravaggio, Galileo, Francois Villon, Joan of Arc, Hypatia, Seneca, Protagoras, Diogenes, Socrates, Anaxagoras, and many more

Any length and style are welcome

Deadline October 31 '25

Each submission will undergo a double-friendly peer-review

Authors (from Yale to jail): Mahmood Fazal (ABC/VICE) & DX, Justin Clemens (Melbourne University), Daniel Ross (Independent), Jones Irwin (Dublin City), Martin Boszorad (UKF Nitra), Alan Tansman (UC Berkeley), Rahenna Markova (Sofia), Matthew Kruger (Boston College) & Richard Deming (Yale)

Queries/submissions/expressions of interest: mongrelmatter@proton.me

Dr Valery Vino