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Volume 4 (2011) kaleidoscopic point

The art, literature, and comics in this issue deal with the kaleidoscopic point in varying terms and forms of vectors and collisions. Historian Julian Chambliss defines kaleidoscopic point as—

. . . a space where myriad lines of sociocultural practice come together to create our contemporary now. The kaleidoscopic point can be imagined as a means by which modernity infuses into the societal collective the belief that change, both natural and manmade, posits a future in a state of perpetual malleability.

Onward into the flux—

Articles

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Table of Contents
SPECS JOURNAL

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Kitty
Melissa Mitchell

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From Excess Exhibit
Zach Kleyn, Amaranth Borsuk, and Kate Durbin

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For Fun, For Keeps
Katie Burpo

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What’s His Face
Jesse Patrick Ferguson

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Kitty Corner the Tim Hortons
Jesse Patrick Ferguson

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Blue Absence of Space
Janee J. Baugher

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My Man
Helen Silverstein

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Van De Kamps
Shannon O’Brien

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Ecdysis
Ruth Polleys

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Mask-A-Scare
Yolanda J. Franklin

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Mnemonic Vices
Yolanda J. Franklin

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Meld
Nathaniel Taggart

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Pinkfish
Doug McNamara

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My Curator
Erin Hoover

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Melody Sees Her Future
Star Coulbrooke

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My Gallery
Jesse Glass

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Geography is Destiny
N. A’Yara Stein

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Lush
Jaime Margary

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From the Hymnal
Robin Linn

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Mystery Play
Noel Sloboda

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Community Arts
Noel Sloboda

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On Time
Noel Sloboda

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Ogling
Lynne Potts

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Dunes; That Day
Lynne Potts

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Like Owls
Tania Hershman

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Dust Bunny
Anne Pitkin

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Motel Goose
Bruce Covey

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Orbits
Bruce Covey

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Downlands
Kathryn Kruse

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Four Scenes
Bishakh Som

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Gypsum in Nova Scotia
William Doreski

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Untitled
Carmen Berenguer

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Untitled
Liz Henry

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Lengua Osa Verba
Carmen Berenguer

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Flourish
T.A. Noonan

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Tyrannosaurus
Willie Davis

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Voodoo
Melissa Mitchell

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Reviews
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Contributors
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Restricted Access Articles

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Sonnet, with Jet Wash
Sherman Alexie

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Happy Holidays!
Sherman Alexie

Editors

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Vidhu Aggarwal
MANAGING EDITOR
Sandra Chávez Johnson
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Tanya Grae
CRITICAL EDITOR
Julian Chambliss
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Jeanne Genis, Emily Russell
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Denise Dawson, Anne Fertig, Daniela Lao
ASSISTANT CRITICAL EDITOR
Gregory Golden
WEBSITE EDITOR
Tanya Grae
EDITORIAL INTERNS
Lori Erickson, Logan Ganier, Antonella Gazzardi, Gregory Golden, Amanda Hampton, Eric Hengstebeck, Tyler Jackson, Abbott Jones, Rebecca Kon, Catheryne Lowe, Monica Mayer, Stephanie Mishler, Catherine Toscano
EDITORIAL BOARD
Jennifer Ailles, Elizabeth Binggeli, Denise Cummings, Mario D’Amato, Creston Davis, Phillip F. Deaver, John Elias, Connie May Fowler, Carol Frost, Claire Jenkins,] James Penner, Paul Reich, Dawn Roe, Jeff Solomon, Anne Zimmerman, Slavoj Žižek