Paul Attinello

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  • October

    The weather has been doing very October-ish things the past few days – windy nights, rainy sidewalks covered with leaves, that kind of thing. This morning there was a bright sunny wash over everything, which was nevertheless golden – exactly like the proper light for late afternoon, but at ten in the morning; it was…

  • Winter pleasures

    A rather tired day, as a result of the usual gastro problems. (I’ve been impressed by my secretary Jane’s recent adventures with a homeopath, who has hugely reduced her long-term allergies – I may try that myself.) To brighten myself up, I did various at-home things: Henry James, Washington Square. I’d never read this short…

  • Orange

    Late this afternoon I orchestrated a lecture-discussion on research for a wide range of postgraduates – not the densest lecture (in terms of content) I’ve ever given, but successful I think, especially as I’d been worried about the rather vague theme and large audience. I was satisfied, and pleased with myself afterward; went to the…

  • Homebody

    Having wakened with griping gastrointestinals (as has happened most days over the past weeks), and nothing I absolutely had to do at the office (I missed an academic presentation by Spurious – but he’ll forgive me, it’s not as though he won’t have an audience), I spent the day lying around in a work-free environment.…

  • Notes from California

    An enjoyable, if too short and rather fragmented, trip to Los Angeles – saw dear friends (and missed a couple who couldn’t get in to see me); met a lot of new academics among the old ones; and gave, if I say so myself, a good presentation of a sexy topic. Almost everyone in LA…

  • chemical bodies

    [A draft of a short panel presentation for a Los Angeles symposium on musicals. Rather on the speculative/bonkers side – in the tradition of Adorno and the post-structuralists – but then I like that kind of thing….] Here we sit, in the unnamed capitol, or at least the largest marketplace, of accelerating physical transformation: from…

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