Author: paulattinello
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Aschenbach-moment
The past few months: there is a lot to say, and not much to say… I continue feeling weakened, sleepy, with problems centred on the new medications. I resolve them more successfully on some days, with various ancillary medicines, and not at all successfully on others. There was a point in early January when I awoke,…
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Getting there
Traveling… After the past couple of shaky months, and shakier weeks, and all of the activity around World AIDS Day, a trip for two conferences – a small conference on identity and music in Graz, and a larger one of Jungians doing politics, in Rome. How was it in general? – a lot of travel (Newcastle-Amsterdam, Amsterdam-Vienna,…
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World AIDS Day Vigil, 2015
[Speech for World AIDS Day, 2015] A couple of weeks ago, I got four different calls from journalists and radio stations asking how I felt about the announcement that actor Charlie Sheen had publicly admitted to being HIV+. I had to come up with an opinion, and I thought, well – good for him, public…
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Shadows
… I don't feel well…. ••• Bits of news and experiences, some silly, some exasperating, exhausting. Some vaguely foreboding. I've mentioned my own error from late spring and summer, in taking charcoal capsules for stomach problems – which led to medications not being absorbed – which is now turning into a chain of events that has…
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Music, sweat, travel: appealing to the passions
In mid-September I was in London – all too briefly; and I apologise that it took so long to write about it… I can remember some of my response in words, at least, even if the visceral immediacy of it has faded. The short form: I went down to London, merely overnight, on a day…
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Depths… or dregs
Continuing to go through everything in my office… preparatory to moving. Which will be delayed a few days (hallelujah) and will be to a relatively large office at the quiet far end of a corridor… hmm my luck seems to be improving. (Don't get too excited, I'm only there for two years, then they move…
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Wandering the stacks
So: I am finally going through all the books, and then the papers, in my office. My office is being moved soon – rather sooner than I'd expected: repeated insistence on a clear date on my part gave rise to a flurry of emails assuring me that it wouldn't happen until mid-September; but now of…
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The Sorting Hat
So, while I was supposed to be doing something else, Eve Forrest generated some ideas on Facebook… and that made me do this. (Ha! 'made' – like she forced me into it…) Which house did the Sorting Hat put various philosophers and cultural thinkers into? *** The List. GriffendorHegelFoucaultJungSocratesCiceroAquinasNewtonGoetheMartin Luther KingBarthesSenecaUmberto EcoKoestlerGiordano BrunoMcLuhan SlytherinAdornoZizekFreudBaudrillardEagletonLacanF R…
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Power down / delete / restart
A strange time… that seems to fuse and clarify memories of other, earlier strange times. Including the past six months. Or the past three. The Jung-Institut weeks were – not fun, but somehow necessary. Several more turns of the wheel in understanding where/who I am. And my annoyance with myself over the past year –…
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Existence
That in-the-midst-of sense… Time recently past: too much stress since about the first of June – some of which twisted at me such that my guts started to react: I felt relatively calm but my body didn't. I'd still like to ascribe this – partly – to current liver damage; which will hopefully be cured…
Paul Attinello 