Dr Paul Atkinson - Researcher Profile

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Address

Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 47026

Email: Paul.Atkinson@monash.edu


Biography

Dr Paul Atkinson teaches in the Communications and Writing program in the School of Applied Media and Social Sciences (SAMSS), Monash University, Australia.  He has lectured and researched in a wide range of areas including critical theory, media studies, cinema studies, visual aesthetics, gender studies, French philosophy and comic book culture.

Paul Atkinson’s research follows three main lines:

¾     the relationship between materiality and corporeality in Henri Bergson’s writings on science, with particular emphasis on the relationship between immanent change and extended movement;

¾     the relationship between aesthetics and time, and

¾     time and visual narration in comics books, painting and film.

 

Published articles explore a range of topics including Bergson’s vitalism, cinema and foreseeability, time and recognition, the durational limits of affect, futurism, 9/11 comics and the implied movement in still images.  The latter involves the analysis of the structural properties of comic books and graphic novels.  He is currently working on a series of articles that explore the relationship between processual theories of time, aesthetics and narrative.  This involves the examination of the importance of rates of change in understanding how the visual surface is constituted in different media.

Research & Supervision Interests

    visual culture, philosophy of time, aesthetics, Henri Bergson, comic books, film, narrative theory, visual art

Keywords

aesthetics, Henri Bergson, visual culture, visual art, philosophy of time, graphic novels, film,

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS)
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2004
PHD IN PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2004

Publications

Books

Poletti, A.L., Atkinson, P. (eds), 2008, Southern Review: Tesimonial Limits, RMIT University, School of Applied Communication, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Atkinson, P., 2011, I know what you did next summer, in Philip K Dick and Philosophy: Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits ?, eds D. E. Wittkower, Open Court Publishing, USA, pp. 261-270.

Atkinson, P., 2011, Time, memory and movement in Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, in Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film, eds Amresh Sinha and Terence McSweeny, Columbia University Press, New York USA, pp. 17-36.

Atkinson, P., 2009, Henri Bergson, in Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage, eds Graham Jones and Jon Roffe, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh Scotland UK, pp. 237-260.

Atkinson, P., 2009, The time of heroes: narrative, progress and eternity in Miracleman, in The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero, eds Angela Ndalianis, Routledge, New York USA, pp. 44-63.

Cooper, S.K., Atkinson, P., 2008, Graphic implosion: politics, time and value in post 9/11 comics, in Literature After 9/11, eds Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Routledge, New York USA, pp. 60-81.

Atkinson, P., 2007, Dynamic sensation: Bergson, futurism and the exteriorization of time in the plastic arts, in Art and Time, eds Jan Lloyd Jones, Paul Campbell and Peter Wylie, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 57-74.

Atkinson, P., 2007, The movement of dissolution: Bergson and the aesthetics of durational difference, in Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life, eds Barbara Bolt, Felicity Colman, Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle UK, pp. 52-62.

Journal Articles

Atkinson, P., Cooper, S.K., 2012, Untimely animations: Waltz with Bashir and the incorporation of historical difference, Screening the Past [P], vol 34, La Trobe University, Vic Australia, pp. 1-13.

Atkinson, P., 2012, Why pause?: the fine line between reading and contemplation, Studies in Comics [P], vol 3, issue 1, Intellect Ltd, Bristol UK, pp. 63-81.

Atkinson, P., 2010, The graphic novel as metafiction, Studies in Comics [P], vol 1, issue 1, Intellect Ltd, Bristol UK, pp. 107-125.

Atkinson, P., 2009, Movements within movements: following the line in animation and comic books, Animation [P], vol 4, issue 3, Sage Publications Ltd, London UK, pp. 265-281.

Poletti, A.L., Atkinson, P., 2008, Editorial: The Limits of Testimony, Southern Review-Adelaide [P], vol 40, issue 3, RMIT University, School of Applied Communication, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-6.

Atkinson, P., Cooper, S.K., Yell, S.M., 2007, Editorial: 'question time' - modalities of knowledge in an information culture, Southern Review, vol 40, issue 2, RMIT Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-4.

Atkinson, P., 2007, The visualisation of utopia in recent science fiction film, Colloquy: Text Theory Critique, vol -, issue 14, Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 5-20.

Atkinson, P., Yell, S.M., 2006, Affect, time and the enunciative body, Southern Review, vol 38, issue 2, RMIT University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 40-57.

Atkinson, P., 2000, Picturing movement and Moving Pictures: Towards a Pragmatics of Pictorial Perception, Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, vol 33, issue 3, RMIT University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 308-322.

Other

Atkinson, P., 2011, Henri Bergson: Essai sur les donnees immediates de la conscience (Time and free will), The Literary Encyclopedia, vol encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, London UK, pp. 1-14.

Atkinson, P., 2004, Bordering Duration: The Shifting Surfaces of Materiality and Corporeality in Bergson's Writings on Science.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Intelligent agents and creative process.
Supervisors:
Atkinson, P (Main), Yell, S (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Philosophy of Time in Science Fiction and the Postmodern Novel.
Supervisors:
Atkinson, P (Main), Jones, G (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Dawson, A.
Program of Study:
Philosophical foundations of information fusion: towards a social-process paradigm. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:
Murphy, P (Main), Atkinson, P (Associate).
Student:
Galloway, C.
Program of Study:
Developing risk-literate public relations. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:
Atkinson, P (Main), Kwansah-Aidoo, K (Associate), Yell, S (Associate).
Student:
Walker, L.
Program of Study:
(In)forming the choices of self-governing audiences: Australian film classification policy 2000-2010. (PHD) 2012.
Supervisors:
Yell, S (Main), Atkinson, P (Associate).