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1996

Leslie, Esther (1996) Exotic of the everyday: critical theory in the parlour. Things 4 , pp. 83-101.

Leslie, Esther (1996) History at large: Pocahontas. History Workshop Journal 41 , pp. 235-239. ISSN 1363-3554.

Leslie, Esther (1996) Wrapping the Reichstag: re-visioning German history. Radical Philosophy 77 , pp. 6-16. ISSN 0300-211X.

1997

Leslie, Esther (1997) On making-up and breaking-up: woman and ware, craving and corpse in Walter Benjamin's arcades project. Historical Materialism 1 , pp. 66-89. ISSN 1465-4466.

Leslie, Esther (1997) The multiple identities of Walter Benjamin. New Left Review 226 , pp. 128-135. ISSN 0028-6060.

1998

Leslie, Esther (1998) Drawing the line: painting history and history painting. In: Gange, J. (ed.) Art, Technology, Technique: Art, Criticism, Theory. London, UK: Pluto Press, pp. 17-33. ISBN 9780745313122.

Leslie, Esther (1998) Walter Benjamin: traces of craft. Journal of Design History 11 (1), pp. 5-13. ISSN 1741-7279.

Leslie, Esther (1998) Walter Benjamin: traces of craft. In: Harrod, T. (ed.) Obscure Objects of Desire: Reviewing the Crafts in the Twentieth Century. London, UK: Crafts Council, pp. 21-31. ISBN 9781870145671.

1999

Leslie, Esther (1999) Souvenirs and forgetting: Walter Benjamin's memory-work. In: Breward, C. and Aynsley, J. and Kwint, M. (eds.) Material Memories: Design and Evocation. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, pp. 107-122. ISBN 9781847881601.

Leslie, Esther (1999) Space and west-end girls: Walter Benjamin versus cultural studies. New Formations: Hating Tradition Properly 38 , pp. 110-124. ISSN 0950-2378.

Leslie, Esther (1999) Telescoping the microscopic object: Walter Benjamin, the collector. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) De-, Dis-, Ex-: The Optic of Walter Benjamin. London, UK: Black Dog Publishing, pp. 58-91. ISBN 9781901033410.

2000

Leslie, Esther (2000) Elemental: the arcades project. In: Osborne, P. and Benjamin, A. (eds.) Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience. Manchester, UK: Clinamen Press, pp. 304-308. ISBN 9781903083086.

Leslie, Esther (2000) Mad pride and prejudice. In: Curtis, T. and Dellar, R. and Leslie, Esther and Watson, B. (eds.) Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture. London, UK: Spare Change Books, pp. 67-82. ISBN 9780952574422.

Leslie, Esther (2000) One step forwards, two steps back. In: Flett, K. and Renton, D. (eds.) The Twentieth Century, A Century of Wars and Revolutions? London, UK: Rivers Oram Press, pp. 33-53. ISBN 9781854891266.

Leslie, Esther (2000) Some optical Illusion: colour and craft. In: Stair, J. (ed.) The Body Politic: The Role of the Body and Contemporary Craft. London, UK: Crafts Council, pp. 51-57. ISBN 9781870145992.

Leslie, Esther (2000) Spectacles and signs. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Living in a material world. Coventry, UK: Coventry University, pp. 240-251.

20 May 2000

Leslie, Esther (2000) Walter Benjamin: overpowering conformism. Modern European Thinkers. London, UK: Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745315737.

2001

Leslie, Esther (2001) Terrible facts series. [Artefact]

2002

Leslie, Esther (2002) Flaneurs in Paris and Berlin. In: Koshlar, R. (ed.) Histories of Leisure. London, UK: Berg Publishers, pp. 61-77. ISBN 9781859735251.

Leslie, Esther (2002) Murmurs of the future. In: Rosenberg, A. (ed.) Berliner Kindheit. New York, USA: Distributed Art Publishers. ISBN 9783882438123.

Leslie, Esther (2002) Philistines and vandals get upset. In: Beech, D. and Roberts, J. (eds.) The Philistine Controversy. London, UK: Verso Press. ISBN 9781859843741.

2003

Leslie, Esther (2003) Absent minded professors: etch-a-sketching academic forgetting. In: Hodgkin, K. and Radstone, S. (eds.) Regimes of Memory. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 172-185. ISBN 9780415511049.

Leslie, Esther (2003) Die kunst der kritik. Jungle World: Die Linke Wochenzeitung ,

Leslie, Esther (2003) KX-CTRL. [Artefact]

Leslie, Esther (2003) The politics of popular culture. Chicago Public Radio, Chicago, USA. (Unpublished)

2004

Leslie, Esther (2004) Jameson, Brecht, Lenin and spectral possibilities. In: Kellner, D. and Homer, S. (eds.) Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader. London, UK: Palgrave, pp. 195-209. ISBN 9780230523524.

Leslie, Esther (2004) Karl Marx and fashion. In: Steele, V. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Fashion and Clothing. New York, USA: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 9780684313955.

June 2004

Leslie, Esther (2004) Hollywood flatlands: animation, critical theory and the avant-garde. London, UK: Verso. ISBN 9781844675043.

2005

Leslie, Esther (2005) Benjamin/Adorno/Brecht and film. In: Wayne, M. (ed.) Understanding Film Marxist Perspectives. London, UK: Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745319926.

Leslie, Esther (2005) Two worlds of fortune: fulture and dying in the global zone. In: Cox, G. and Krysa, J. and Lewin, A. (eds.) Economising Culture. Autonomedia. ISBN 9781570271687.

Leslie, Esther (2005) Wear and tear. In: Evans, C. and Breward, C. (eds.) Fashion and Modernity. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781845200282.

March 2005

Leslie, Esther (2005) Book review: enough is enough! Variant: Cross Currents in Culture 22 (12), pp. 33-34. ISSN 0954-8815.

Leslie, Esther (2005) Stars, phosphor and chemical colours: extraterrestriality in 'The Arcades'. In: Burrow, M. and Farnell, G. and Jardine, M. (eds.) Readings Benjamin's Arcades. New Formations 54. London, UK: Lawrence and Wishart. ISBN 1905007132.

1 March 2005

Leslie, Esther (2005) Globalica: communism, culture and the commodity. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Economising Culture On the (Digital) Culture Industry. New York, USA: Autonomedia. ISBN 9781570271687.

April 2005

Leslie, Esther (2005) Synthetic worlds: nature, art and the chemical industry. London, UK: Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781861892485.

2006

Leslie, Esther (2006) Add value to contents: the valorisation of culture today. Transversal: machines and subjectivation 11 , ISSN 1811-1696.

Leslie, Esther and Watson, B. (2006) Comic Marxism: punk's day-glo and the Bash Street Kids. Dot Dot Dot 11 ,

Leslie, Esther (2006) Where abstraction and comics collide: Oskar Fischinger. Tate etc. 7 , ISSN 1743-8853.

May 2006

Leslie, Esther (2006) From stillness to movement and back: cartoon theory today. Radical Philosophy 137 , pp. 8-12. ISSN 0300-211X.

July 2006

Leslie, Esther (2006) Kandinsky, Oskar Fischinger: where abstraction and comics collide. Tate etc. 7 , ISSN 1743-8853.

27 July 2006

Leslie, Esther (2006) Ruin and rubble in the arcades. In: Hansen, B. (ed.) Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. Walter Benjamin Studies. London, UK: Continuum. ISBN 9780826463876.

2007

Leslie, Esther (2007) Blake's lines: seven digressions through time and space. ImageTexT 3 (2), ISSN 1549-6732.

17 February 2007

Leslie, Esther (2007) Snow shaker. In: Candlin, Fiona and Guins, R. (eds.) The Object Reader. In Sight: Visual Culture. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415452304.

8 March 2007

Leslie, Esther (2007) American splendor. In: Merck, M. (ed.) America First: Naming the Nation in US Film. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415374965.

August 2007

Leslie, Esther (2007) Kracauer’s Weimar geometry and geomancy. New Formations 61 , pp. 34-48. ISSN 0950-2378.

September 2007

Leslie, Esther (2007) Walter Benjamin. Critical Lives. London, UK: Reaktion. ISBN 9781861893437.

2008

Leslie, Esther (2008) Francis. Animate ,

November 2008

Leslie, Esther (2008) Flux and flurry: stillness and hypermovement in animated worlds. Radical Philosophy 152 , pp. 21-30. ISSN 0300-211X.

2009

Leslie, Esther (2009) Ben Wilson. In: Davies, C. and Parrinder, M. (eds.) Limited Language: Rewriting Design Responding to a Feedback Culture. Basel, Germany: Birkhauser. ISBN 9783034604604.

Leslie, Esther (2009) It's Mickey Mouse. In: Furniss, M. (ed.) Animation - Art & Industry: A Reader. New Barnet, UK: John Libbey. ISBN 9780861966806.

Leslie, Esther and Wayne, M. (2009) Preface. In: Bould, M. and Miéville, China (eds.) Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction. Lebanon, U.S.: Univeristy Press of New England. ISBN 9780819569134.

Leslie, Esther (2009) Shudder - Shutter - Shatter. Animate Projects.

1 February 2009

Leslie, Esther (2009) Houses of the future. Modern painters 21 (1), pp. 28-30. ISSN 0953-6698.

September 2009

Leslie, Esther and McCail, C. (2009) Chad McCail in conversation with Esther Leslie. Stanley Picker Gallery Public Lectures on Art 3. Kingston-Upon-Thames, UK: Centre for Useless Splendour. ISBN 9780956378231.

October 2009

Leslie, Esther (2009) Icy scenes from three centuries. In: Pajaczkowska, C. and White, L. (eds.) The Sublime Now. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 36-49. ISBN 9781443813020.

2010

Leslie, Esther (2010) Lines in the landscape. Hammer Museum and DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel Publishing, Los Angeles, U.S..

Leslie, Esther (2010) Liquidation and shattering: Walter Benjamin’s aesthetics. In: Pusca, A.M. (ed.) Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230580862.

Leslie, Esther (2010) Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin: memory from Weimar to Hitler. In: Radstone, S. and Schwarz, B. (eds.) Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. New York, USA: Fordham University Press. ISBN 9780823232604.

Leslie, Esther and Jackson, M. (2010) The Urpflanze. London, UK: The Drawing Room and Matt's Gallery London. ISBN 9780955829925.

Leslie, Esther (2010) Walter Benjamin and the technological unconscious. In: Andreotti, L. (ed.) Spielraum: W. Benjamin and Architecture. Thinking Space. Paris: Editions de la Villette. ISBN 9782915456608.

Leslie, Esther (2010) Walter Benjamin, politics, aesthetics. Kunst Spektakel Revolution, Weimar, Germany.

May 2010

Leslie, Esther (2010) Recycling. In: Beaumont, M. and Dart, G. (eds.) Restless Cities. London, UK: Verso. ISBN 9781844674053.

2011

Leslie, Esther (2011) Eisenstein - Joyce - Marx; cosmic, comic. Enclave Review, Cork, Ireland.

Leslie, Esther (2011) Shadowy, shape-shifting, shaky: animation as subversion. In: Wagner, B. and Grausgruber, W. (eds.) Tricky Women: Animations Film Kunst von Frauen. Vienna, Asutria: Schueren. ISBN 9783894727239.

Leslie, Esther (2011) Slumberland, architecture and the technological unconscious. In: Libero, A. (ed.) Spielraum: W. Benjamin et l’Architecture. Paris, France: Editions La Villette. ISBN 9782915456608.

June 2011

Leslie, Esther (2011) Critical criticism’s critique: 13 theses, or, it is all rubbish. In: Schad, J. and Tearle, O. (eds.) Crrritic! Sighs, Cries, Lies, Insults, Outbursts, Hoaxes, Disasters, Letters of Resignation, and Various Other Noises Off in These the First and Last Days of Literary Criticism ... Not to Mention the University. Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781845193423.

1 October 2011

Leslie, Esther (2011) Smashing time. In: Loftus, B. (ed.) Sigismund's Watch. London, UK: Phillip Wilson Publishing, pp. 85-98. ISBN 9780856677090.

November 2011

Leslie, Esther (2011) Bouleversed Baudelairizing. Other. Veer, London, UK.

2012

Leslie, Esther (2012) Disturbios culturales. In: Ossandón, J. and Vodanovic, L. (eds.) Disturbios culturales (Cultural Unrest). Santiago, Chile: Universidad Diego Portales.

5 June 2012

Leslie, Esther (2012) The black spectrum – from coal to colour. In: The Penzance Convention, 17-20 May 2012, Penzance, UK. (Unpublished)

2013

Leslie, Esther (2013) Brecht and cinema. In: Bauer, P. and Kidner, D. (eds.) Working Together: Notes on British Film Collectives in the 1970s. Southend, UK: Focal Point Gallery. ISBN 9781907185052.

Leslie, Esther (2013) Complex Messiah. In: Jordan Wolfson (ed.) Ecce Homo/Le Poseur. Berlin, Germany: Walther König. ISBN 9783863354145.

Leslie, Esther (2013) Crowds, clouds, politics and aesthetics, flipping again. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics , ISSN 2000-9607.

Leslie, Esther (2013) Esther Leslie. In: Lauschmann, T. (ed.) Startle. London, UK: London Film and Video Umbrella. ISBN 9780955876950.

March 2013

Leslie, Esther (2013) Loops and joins: Muybridge and the optics of animation. Early Popular Visual Culture 11 (1), pp. 28-40. ISSN 1746-0654.

July 2013

Leslie, Esther (2013) Animation’s petrified unrest. In: Buchan, S. (ed.) Pervasive Animation. AFI Film Readers. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415807241.

Leslie, Esther (2013) Mark Leckey’s Anima Mundi. Afterall (33), ISSN 1465-4253.

Leslie, Esther (2013) Wheels, suitcases, angels: Kurt Schwitters and Walter Benjamin. Affirmations: Of The Modern 1 (1),

30 October 2013

Leslie, Esther (2013) Homes for ghosts: Walter Benjamin and Kurt Schwitters in the cities. Societies 3 (4), pp. 414-426. ISSN 2075-4698.

2014

Leslie, Esther (2014) Animation and history. In: Beckman, K. (ed.) Animating Film Theory. Durham, North Carolina, United States: Duke University Press, pp. 25-36. ISBN 9780822356523.

Leslie, Esther (2014) COLOUR OPPONENT PROCESS: On Aura Satz. Gallery 44.

March 2014

Leslie, Esther (2014) Derelicts: thought worms from the wreckage. London, UK: Unkant. ISBN 9780956817693.

April 2014

Leslie, Esther (2014) Dreams for sale. In: Fischer, L. and Fraser, I. and Gregg, R. and Uhlirova, M. (eds.) Birds of Paradise. Costume as Cinematic Spectacle. London, UK: Walther König. ISBN 9783863352181.

2015

Leslie, Esther (2015) Brute forces. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Bad Feelings. London, UK: Book Works. ISBN 9781906012588.

Leslie, Esther (2015) Kraftwerk’s signs of the 1970s. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Influenser, referenser och plagiat : om Kraftwerks estetik = Influences, references and imitations : on the aesthetics of Kraftwerk. Goteberg, Sweden: Röhsska museet. ISBN 9789187039096.

Leslie, Esther (2015) The peculiar ecstasy of the animated object. In: Pantenburg, V. (ed.) Cinematographic Objects: Things and Operations. Cologne, Germany: August Verlag, pp. 95-109. ISBN 9783941360341.

February 2015

Leslie, Esther (2015) Art after war: experience, poverty and the crystal utopia. In: Anievas, A. (ed.) Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics. Historical Materialism Book Series 89. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 216-235. ISBN 9789004262676.

15 June 2015

Leslie, Esther (2015) Haphazard: a gambler’s word hoard. In: Carfield Corr, H. and Epps, L. (eds.) The Very Last Time. London, UK: Ambergris Editions. ISBN 9780993393402.

July 2015

Leslie, Esther (2015) Art, documentary and the essay film. Radical Philosophy (192), ISSN 0300-211X.

September 2015

Leslie, Esther (2015) On photography: Walter Benjamin. London, UK: Reaktion. ISBN 9781780235257.

2016

Leslie, Esther (2016) Colonial and capitalist pedagogy. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 24 (4), pp. 517-524. ISSN 1468-1366.

Leslie, Esther (2016) Colonial and communist pedagogy. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 24 (4), pp. 517-524. ISSN 1468-1366.

Leslie, Esther (2016) Liquid, crystal, vaporous: the natural states of capitalism. In: Ferguson, K. and Petro, P. (eds.) After Capitalism: Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship. New Directions in International Studies. Rutgers University Press, pp. 151-165. ISBN 9780813584263.

Leslie, Esther (2016) Touch screen. In: Pryor, S. and Trotter, D. (eds.) Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies. Technographies. London, UK: Open Humanities Press, pp. 191-207. ISBN 9781785420184.

January 2016

Leslie, Esther (2016) Ice creams, atom bomb, i-screens, data bomb. In: Baur, A. and Leslie, Esther and Weber, M. (eds.) Better Than De Kooning. Germany: RAM Publications. ISBN 9783864421372.

May 2016

Leslie, Esther and Dolbear, Samuel and Truskolaski, S., eds. (2016) Walter Benjamin: the storyteller. London, UK: Verso. ISBN 9781784783044.

June 2016

Leslie, Esther (2016) All that is solid melts into the conjuntural. In: Corby, J. (ed.) Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall Berman. New York, U.S.: UR, pp. 152-161. ISBN 9780996004169.

September 2016

Leslie, Esther and Jackson, M. (2016) Industrial metaphysics. Parallax 22 (4), pp. 427-436. ISSN 1353-4645.

October 2016

Leslie, Esther (2016) Acts of handwriting. In: Hiller, S. and Treister, S. (eds.) Monica Ross: Ethical Actions - A Critical Fine Art Practice. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press. ISBN 9783956792021.

1 October 2016

Leslie, Esther (2016) Liquid crystals: the art and science of a fluid form. London, UK: Reaktion. ISBN 9781780236452.

November 2016

Leslie, Esther and Jackson, M. (2016) The meaning of milk. Cabinet Magazine 62 , ISSN 1531-1430.

2 December 2016

Leslie, Esther (2016) Benjamin gegen den Staat. In: Blättler, C. and Full, C. (eds.) Walter Benjamin Politisches Denken. Staatsverständnisse 93. Baden Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlag, pp. 111-134. ISBN 9783848734252.

2017

Leslie, Esther (2017) Between Brecht and Breton: on Amy! and Crystal Gazing. Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Beyond the Scorched Earth of Counter-Cinema ,

1 November 2017

McKim, Joel and Leslie, Esther (2017) Life remade: critical animation in the digital age. [Editorial/Introduction]

2 November 2017

Jackson, M. and Leslie, Esther (2017) Unreliable matriarchs. In: Cohen, M. and Otomo, Y. (eds.) Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350029965.

29 November 2017

Leslie, Esther (2017) Cloud animation. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12 (3), pp. 230-243. ISSN 1746-8477.

2018

Leslie, Esther and Anderson, K. and Hardt, M. and Menke, C. and ymm, +cö and Wahnich, S. (2018) Interview. Crisis and Critique 4 (2), pp. 451-497. ISSN 2311-8172.

6 January 2018

Leslie, Esther and Souvlis, G. (2018) Interview with Esther Leslie: for A Marxist poetics of science. Historical Materialism, London, UK.

10 January 2018

Lori, M. and Chalmers, C. and Evans, G. and Mooney, Stephen and Mudie, P. and Taberham, P. and Sheehan, R. and Hamblyn, N. (2018) Stan Brakhage: the realm buster. London, UK: John Libbey. ISBN 9780861967285.

15 January 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) Waste in time and the radioactivity of objects. Technosphere Magazine ,

3 February 2018

Leslie, Esther and Jackson, M. (2018) Deeper in the pyramid. London, UK: Banner Repeater. ISBN 9780992917654.

12 February 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) Kitsch. In: Scholz, S. and Vedder, U. (eds.) Handbuch Literatur & Materielle Kultur. Handbücher zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Philologie 6. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, pp. 412-414. ISBN 9783110416497.

15 April 2018

Leslie, Esther and Candela, E. and Dicker, B. and Drew, B. (2018) Liquid crystals: a roundtable. Journal of Visual Culture 17 (1), pp. 357-372. ISSN 1470-4129.

Leslie, Esther and Jackson, M. (2018) Milk’s arrays. Studies in the Maternal 10 (1), p. 8. ISSN 1759-0434.

1 May 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) Playspaces of anthropological materialist pedagogy: film, radio, toys. Boundary 2 45 (2), pp. 243-244. ISSN 0190-3659.

4 May 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) 'The murderous, meaningless caprices of fashion': Marx on capital, clothing and fashion. Culture Matters ,

1 August 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) ‘The Clouds, the Cephs and the Ferments’/’Die Wolken, die Sepien und das Gären’. In: Oberender, T. and Rosenberg, A. (eds.) Philippe Parreno: Gropius Bau Sommer 2018. Berlin, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig. ISBN 9783960983903.

30 August 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) The smile catchers. Wellcome Trust, London, UK.

September 2018

Leslie, Esther and Juarez, G. (2018) Flux until sunrise, a booklet for Geraldine Juarez. Sweden: Rojal Förlag.

October 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) Liquid crystal as chemical form and model of thinking in Alfred Döblin’s modernist science. In: Bud, R. and Greenhalgh, P. and James, F. and Shiach, M. (eds.) Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century. London, UK: UCL Press, pp. 357-372. ISBN 9781787353930.

12 October 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) Who framed us? Lunch 13 ,

1 November 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) Men of doubt: Fortini, Brecht, Benjamin. Salvage 6 ,

16 December 2018

Leslie, Esther (2018) Dessin animé et avant-garde. Entretien avec Esther Leslie. Revue Periode, Paris, France.

2019

Leslie, Esther (2019) Anti-Fascism, anti-art, doubt and despair. Third Text 33 (3), pp. 293-313. ISSN 0952-8822.

15 January 2019

Leslie, Esther (2019) Jagode in Smetana: O Esfir Sub in revolucionarmen objecktu. In: Krajnc, M. and Baskar, N. and Kos, J. and Lovrenov, M. (eds.) Oktobrska revolucija in zgodnje-sovjetski film. Zbirka Jesenska filmska šola. Slovenia: Jesenskafilmskasola, Slovenska Kinoteka. ISBN 9789617013085.

3 March 2019

Leslie, Esther (2019) Messianic rays in the Atomic Age: Walter Benjamin in the presence of radioactivity. ALIENOCENE: Journal of the First Outernational ,

1 April 2019

Leslie, Esther (2019) This other atmosphere: against human resources, Emoji, and devices. Journal of Visual Culture 18 (1), pp. 3-29. ISSN 1470-4129.

5 July 2019

Leslie, Esther (2019) Waves and globes in Walter Benjamin’s Microcosmic Cities. In: Dirscherl, M. and Köhler, A. (eds.) Urban Microcosms 1789-1940. ilmr books. London, UK: Institute of Modern Language Research. ISBN 9780854572663.

27 August 2019

Leslie, Esther (2019) Ars Technica in Ethereality. In: Bang Larsen, L. (ed.) Mud Muses – A Rant About Technology. Stockhlom, Sweden: Museum of Modern Art/Moderna Museet, pp. 97-107. ISBN 9789198417753. (In Press)

2020

Leslie, Esther (2020) Air bubbles. [Audio]

Leslie, Esther (2020) Clouds over Somers Town. In: Hatherley, O. (ed.) The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs. London, UK: Open City. ISBN 9781916016910.

Leslie, Esther (2020) Devices and the designs on us: of dust and gadgets. West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 27 (1), ISSN 2153-5531.

Leslie, Esther (2020) Touchscreen. In: Pryor, S. and Trotter, D. (eds.) Writing, Machine, Code: Modern Technographies. Open Humanities Press. ISBN 9781785420061. (In Press)

1 January 2020

Leslie, Esther (2020) The particulars of the Avant Garde: between aesthetic experience and insult, experiment and insularity. Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik 25 , ISSN 0418-3878.

30 January 2020

Leslie, Esther (2020) Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics. [Book Review]

1 March 2020

Leslie, Esther (2020) Political aesthetics. International Lexicon of Aesthetics , ISSN 2611-5166.

21 May 2020

Leslie, Esther (2020) Let’s Submerge. [Book Review]

1 July 2020

Leslie, Esther (2020) Gilbert Bayes’ Clock: British Art Studies conversation piece: luxury and crisis. British Art Studies (16), ISSN 2058-5462.

23 July 2020

Leslie, Esther (2020) Taking a beating. In: Hasham, L. (ed.) Heather Phillipson. London, UK: Prestel. ISBN 9783791359526.

31 December 2020

Leslie, Esther (2020) The street and the fragment aesthetics of experience; aesthetics of the particular in David Frisby. In: Giannakopoulou, G. and Gilloch, G. (eds.) The Detective of Modernity: Essays on the Work of David Frisby. Classical and Contemporary Social Theory. Routledge. ISBN 9780367192563.

2021

Leslie, Esther (2021) Work, like a beast. In: Janeckova, H. and Kotatkova, E. and Kurik, B. (eds.) Animal Touch: Art, Labour and Emotion. Prague: ArtMap, pp. 32-47. ISBN 9788090787377.

14 January 2021

Leslie, Esther (2021) Marx and popular Modernism. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism. Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781501351129.

1 April 2021

Leslie, Esther (2021) Fog, Froth and Foam: insubstantial Matters in Substantive Atmospheres. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Electric Brine. Berlin, Germany: Archive Press. ISBN 9783948212490.

3 April 2021

Leslie, Esther (2021) Fire and blood: Walter Benjamin’s Paris commune. [Book Review]

8 April 2021

Leslie, Esther (2021) Movement. In: Waugh, P. and Botha, M. (eds.) Future Theory: A Handbook to Critical Concepts. London, UK: Bloomsbury, pp. 115-128. ISBN 9781472567352.

5 August 2021

Leslie, Esther (2021) Remnants of Utopia. [Book Review]

12 December 2021

Leslie, Esther (2021) Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, T.W. Adorno, and companions writing the city. In: Tambling, J. (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319625928.

2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) In turbid environments. In: Denecke, M. and Kuhn, H. and Stürmer, M. (eds.) Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization. Diaphanes, pp. 165-180. ISBN 9783035804812.

9 January 2022

Leslie, Esther and Jackson, M. (2022) The Inextinguishable. [Artefact]

4 February 2022

Leslie, Esther and Schmitz, E. (2022) Animate Assembly. [Artefact]

27 February 2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) The long demise of Germany’s student revolt. [Book Review]

1 March 2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) A Somers Town Companion. [Artefact]

1 May 2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) Nature of disruption, disruption of nature: during and after the pandemic. PWD - Philosophy World Democracy ,

13 May 2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) Liquid metal, liquid crystal meets swimming Nanorobots: on the political aesthetics of self-organising behaviours in life systems. In: Finke, M. and Nakas, K. (eds.) Fluidity: Materials in Motion. Berlin, Germany: Reimer, pp. 105-120. ISBN 9783496016724.

18 June 2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) Long reads: Esther Leslie on Walter Benjamin's messianic Marxism. [Audio]

9 September 2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) Kitsch, Schlock and Camp. In: Shapiro, S. and Storey, M. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to American Horror. Cambridge Companions to Literature 300. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91-104. ISBN 9781009071550.

30 September 2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) Bouleversed Baudelairizing: on Poetics and terror. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry 14 (1), ISSN 1758-972X.

November 2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) Art up for grabs. In: Teige, K. (ed.) The Marketplace of Art / Commentary. Dijon, France: Les pressses du reel. ISBN 9789526938981.

10 December 2022

Leslie, Esther (2022) Intergalactic matter. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Strange Attractor. Lisbon, Portugal: Galerias Municipais/EGEAC. ISBN 9789898763716.

January 2023

Jackson, M. and Leslie, Esther (2023) Deeper in the pyramid: journeys of lactic abstraction. In: Serrano, D.P. and Diaz, A.A. (eds.) The Microbiopolitics of Milk. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press. ISBN 9783956796609.

19 March 2023

Jackson, M. and Leslie, Esther (2023) Deeper in the pyramid: share of throat. UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 9781739343101.

1 April 2023

Leslie, Esther (2023) Lukács’ red revolution. Science & Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis 87 (2), pp. 38-51. ISSN 0036-8237.

20 April 2023

Leslie, Esther (2023) Economic forecasting and the end of the Avant-Garde: Crystal Gazing. In: Fuke, O. (ed.) The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Scripts, Working Documents, Interpretation. Title by Title 384. London, UK: Bloomsbury and BFI, pp. 151-156. ISBN 9781839025242.

18 May 2023

Leslie, Esther (2023) Class in movement, forming and unforming. Crisis and Critique 10 (1), ISSN 2311-8172.

11 July 2023

Dolbear, Samuel and Leslie, Esther (2023) Dissonant waves: Ernst Schoen and experimental sound in the 20th Century. Sonics Series. London, UK: Goldsmiths Press. ISBN 9781913380564.

1 September 2023

Leslie, Esther (2023) The rise and fall of Imperial Chemical Industries: synthetics, sensism and the environment. Pivots. London, UK: Palgrave. ISBN 9783031374319.

30 October 2023

Leslie, Esther (2023) The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program by Kevin McLaughlin (review). [Book Review]

19 February 2024

Leslie, Esther (2024) Mode. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Historisch-kritische Wörterbuch des Marxismus (HKWM): "Mitleid – Nazismus". Hamburg, Germany: Argument Verlag, pp. 1175-1186. ISBN 9783886194438.

29 February 2024

Leslie, Esther (2024) Afterword. Concluding perception: seeing and seeming, unseeing and unseeming in the fog. In: Eldridge, L. and Trivedi, N. (eds.) Robotic Vision and Virtual Interfacings. Technicities. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 323-332. ISBN 9781399523448.

Leslie, Esther (2024) Pastures new: atmospheres, mud, and moods. In: Tamari, T. (ed.) Human Perception and Digital Information Technologies: Animation, the Body and Affect. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, pp. 29-41. ISBN 9781529226188.

24 June 2024

Leslie, Esther (2024) Ottinger’s Berlin: exotic of the everyday. In: McRobbie, A. (ed.) Ulrike Ottinger: Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination. London, UK: Intellect. ISBN 9781789389364.

23 August 2024

Leslie, Esther (2024) Times of unreasons’s many unhappy returns. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 33 (67), ISSN 2000-1452.

30 September 2024

Joseph Lester, J. and Kahane, A. and King, Simon and Leslie, Esther, eds. (2024) Walking in cities: navigating post-pandemic urban environments. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781032412610.

12 November 2024

Leslie, Esther (2024) Convivial scenes on the Strand, 1823. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (36), ISSN 1755-1560.