Welcome to Kaleidoscope, an interdisciplinary, online, open-access journal edited by postgraduates at Durham University, for the benefit of the postgraduate research community in the United Kingdom and internationally. Working under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced Study, Kaleidoscope is designed to foster communication between postgraduates in different disciplines and to promote excellence in interdisciplinary research.
Volume 3, Issue 2 of Kaleidoscope was published in December 2009, on the theme of "Beyond the Human". The next issue is due for publication in June 2010, with a focus on the subject of "Water." If you would like to submit to the journal, please see the current Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines. To automatically receive notice of journal issues and Calls for Papers, please visit the News and CFP to subscribe to our RSS feed.
News
Volume 3, Issue 2 (December 2009): Beyond the Human
Articles
- Adam Stock, "'The Organic and the Mechanical: Images of Man, the State and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
- Stuart Rochester, "'The Eschatological Anthrōpos in Mark's Gospel"
- Itsuki Kitani, "Sensibility and Shelley's Organic System of Nature in 'The Sensitive Plant'"
- David McWilliam, "To Speak Without Being Heard: The Ethics of Ownership Surrounding the Creation of Cloned Life in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go"
- Caroline Havercourt, "The Consciousness Revolution: A battle between darkness and light at the end of the (Ego) Tunnel?"
Book Reviews
- Alistair Brown, review of Tim M. Berra, Charles Darwin: The Concise Examination of an Extraordinary Man
- Jagruti Dave, review of Glen Mazis, Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries
- Maria Carolina Lucato, review of Marcus Düwell, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter & Dietmar Mieth, eds.,The Contingent Nature of Life: Bioethics and the Limits of Human Existence
- Eduardo Neve-Jimenez, review of Emily Shuckburgh, ed., Survival: Survival of the Human Race
- Jelena Novak, review of Eric Salzman & Thomas Desi, The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body
- William Viney, review of Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader
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