Third PDF Edition, November 2023

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Second PDF Edition, November 2023

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First PDF Edition.

November 2023.

You can get a copy here.

bidding an honest, last farewell calls for great courage and, arguably, a singular sense of clarity; it's a heuristic message worthy of our attention, particularly if we consider authors and artists who created their own worldviews for us, facing death head-on

during this ordeal, there’s nothing to lose and hide – on the folded edges dividing death and life, every thing matters

it is therefore surprising that no collective philosophical study of this critical lacuna has been undertaken to date (see Lewis 2016, Ward 2004; cf. Critchley 2008)

our next open book will consist of free-styled responses to a range of farewell messages to posterity:

• death-bed

• death-row

• suicide notes

• eulogy

• headstone epitaph

• >>>

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Our book will be dedicated to Nietzsche - his thoughts/moods/feelings/rhymes/laughter/… - imprinted in eternity

Soft deadline June ‘25

Submissions are open!

Our book will revolve around the tenuous concept of crime (and, deep down, human nature) with respect to the lives and works of artists and philosophers subjected to criminalisation/persecution.

Examples are numerous: Ai Weiwei, Bernard Stiegler, 2Pac, Sid Vicious, Angela Davis, Alan Turing, Simone Weil, Karl Schwesig, Alexander Berkman, Oscar Wilde, Denis Diderot, Benedict Spinoza, Caravaggio, Galileo, Joan of Arc, Hypatia, Seneca, Protagoras, Socrates, and many more…

Soft deadline August '25