Calls for Submissions
Below are all of Mosaic’s open Calls for Submissions. In addition to these Calls for Submissions, Mosaic accepts general submissions all year long. For more information about submission guidelines or to submit an essay for consideration, visit our Submit an Essay page.
Intelligence
Mosaic invites interdisciplinary submissions for a special issue on Intelligence. We are in the thick of a crisis, not so much generated by AI, which is one of a number of symptoms, but in terms of how we define intelligence itself. We are interested in essays broaching the ecological and species biases that contour definitions of intelligence, in work on other than human intelligence, say, that of animals, plants, and the language of inanimate things, but equally in the “wisdom” of democracy vs collectives and/or identitarian concerns, the literalization of centralized intelligence in our increasingly technical milieu, linear vs. non-linear thinking processes, two-dimensional vs. multi-dimensional conceptual sequencing, and the language of crisis surrounding all of these limit cases. With an emphasis on decentring ontology, an expanded ethics and criticism keyed to these and other prosthetic attachments stamped by time and exteriority, we invite submissions on the plastic substrates of intelligence, how literary and artistic works narrativize these forms of hyper-materialist cognition, and how current theoretical work challenges metaphysics in the name of “animal cognition,” “rhizomatic thought,” “plant thinking,” the geological and planetary humanities, the “intelligence of art,” and so on.
Deadline: Dec 15, 2026
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Suicides
The precarity of life—that intimacy between life and death—is a recurrent motif of published works at Mosaic. With special emphasis on death, the journal has consistently highlighted how the latter has variously impacted the history of philosophy, the questions of writing and reading, the aporias of the ethical encounter or autoimmunity, and finally, the slippery proximity of death to suicide. Suicide with a positive valence, in an intimate relationship with life, and so often touched by time, is at the core of Mosaic’s call for submissions on Suicides. Ecocide, writing, repetition, our reliance on technology and fossil fuels, increasingly artificial intelligence, the very practice of self-criticism, the problem of “petty-bourgeois sado-masochisms,” and the increasing contradictions of capital are all symptomatic. Mosaic invites innovative and interdisciplinary submissions on suicides that brush up against becoming, conversion, autobiography, resilience, precisely “not dying,” love, and affect. We are especially interested in essays that address these critical tropes in theory, literature and art, and in connection to the work of those artists, poets, and thinkers who risk their lives for their chosen medium by accepting the inadequacies of form; in some cases, taking their life in apparent continuity with the logic of a life’s work.
Deadline: Dec 15, 2026
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