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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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),

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

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

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

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

Leslie, Esther (2008) Francis. Animate ,

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Book Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

Editorial/Introduction

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

Book Section

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 (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 (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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (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.

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.

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) 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.

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

Monograph

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

Conference or Workshop Item

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

Book

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Artefact

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

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

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

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

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

Audio

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

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

Other

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leslie, Esther Are we the cows of the future? The New York Times, New York, U.S..