volume I
issue I
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Madeline Blake
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Chloe Sproule
Lauren Frasca
Eva Maciukiewicz
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Muhammad Mohiz
"The Unbounded Body:
Grotesque Imagination & Typologies of Play in the Renaissance Garden"
"'Elle s’affiche!': Shame, Visibility, and The Anti-Epiphany in Daisy Miller"
"Talking Trash: An Ethnography of Street Garbage in Montreal’s Plateau"
"Countercultures at Jasna Góra:
Youth, Catholicism, and the Capacity for Self-Expression in the Polish People’s Republic"
"Aristotle on Moral Habits in the Attention Economy: Outrage as Incentive,
Vice as Outcome"
artwork
Bhreagh Godin
Yuanyi Ma
Joelle Schrag
"HERD," "Ethel II," "Goodnight Little Lamb"
"Her Back to Me"
"Cupcake"
Founded under the original name of McGill Journal of Human Behaviour in 2021, Kaleidoscope begins from the sense that while the humanities and social sciences often address the same phenomena—ourselves, our communities, our practices—their discourses rarely make this shared ground legible. The problem is not only intellectual but lived, as we navigate overlapping matrices that shape our encounters as consumers, producers, subjects, agents, and selves.
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What Kaleidoscope offers is not a synthesis of disciplines, but an experience. Contributors write commentaries on work outside their own methods and concerns, engaging not as experts but as readers situated elsewhere. The aim is not to resolve difference but to experience it intellectually and affectively—such that, for both writer and reader, these discourses come into contact, overlapping across these pages and the time in which they are read, without coherence being demanded.
