Paul Attinello

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  • 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…

  • Victories

    My sister is far better, sounded remarkably cheerful on the telephone yesterday. Friday I started calculating exactly what I had to get done before leaving for Los Angeles this coming Thursday; and panicked – nerves, anxiety, woke at 6 am to wander restlessly about, wondering how it could all possibly get done. (Especially as most…

  • Relative

    Fragments of good things and difficult ones; much administration, many students (most of whom seem rather smart, charming, alert this year; as D. said, sometimes it seems as though changes in students are like the weather – who knows why they happen – which means, I guess, we should be grateful for good weather). A…

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