Dr Paul Atkinson teaches in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Henri Bergson and Visual Culture: A Philosophy for a New Aesthetic (2021), and has published widely on a range of media, from cinema and dance to painting and music, in addition to his work on philosophy and aesthetics. Most of his research investigates how processual times underpin differences between mediums and inform creative practice and technology use.
1. An aesthetics of durational difference.
2. Visuality and the logic of solid bodies.
3. Seeing speed: Modernism and the thresholds of perception.
4. Sensual immediacy and the time of recognition.
5. Material rhythms and the duration of the creative gesture.
6. Kinaesthesia at any Speed: Empathy, rhythm and performance.
7. Life as a frame of reference: Aesthesis, relativity and the moving image.