Esther Rose Leslie

Attending @histmat.bsky.social in London? Join @abolisheconomics.bsky.social, @americanwork47.bsky.social, @bbiunion.bsky.social, and others for our workshop "Workers’ Inquiry in the United States: Immigrant Service Workers, Café, Care, and Nonprofit Workers" hosted by @notesfrombelow.bsky.social!

📙 Dissonant Waves by Sam Dolbear & Esther Leslie

A deep dive into the life and ideas of Ernst Schoen. Radio pioneer, poet, and sound experimenter. Think surrealism meets sonic theory meets anti-fascist resistance, all told through the history of early German radio

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Unweird Economies: Catastrophe as Commonplace | Weird Economies From a small spot in a small place, large reworkings of the world are not just dreamt up, but financed. This financialisation comes to suffuse worlds …

What's going down in Somers Town?
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The Amiel & Melburn Annual lecture is happening this Wednesday!

A stellar lineup discussing how the Left can resist the Rise of the Radical Right, hosted at Birkbeck.

@kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social @afoggyplace.bsky.social @bethanyrielly.bsky.social @robtoes.bsky.social

Our shows can be found if you scroll down the link. But Schoen's shows mainly disappeared. Or are not yet found!

All gathered neatly.
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Annual Lecture 2025: Resisting the rise of the radical right - Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust Join us on Wednesday 2 July 2025 with Costas Douzinas, Liz Fekete, Rob Topinka, Zarah Sultana MP and Kojo Koram. Chaired by Esther Leslie.

🚨Amiel & Melburn Lecture 2025

A special panel discussion on 'Resisting the rise of the Radical Right' with @zarahsultana.bsky.social, Costas Douzinas, Rob Topinka, @kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social, @afoggyplace.bsky.social

🗓️Wed 2 July
🕠17:30PM
📍Birkbeck University

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Dissonant Waves - 27 March 2025 (extended edit) The second of three shows looking at radio pioneer, composer, poet and anti-fascist Ernst Schoen – drawing on the book by co-presenters Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie: Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and...

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Page from Esther Leslie: Liquid crystals

Esther Leslie's "Liquid Crystals" is stunning and liquid crystal physics always remind me of Laurel Halo's Neberwirkungen: https://youtu.be/TbrgPpY7C4U?si=BRNF8UNuwf4MyEWj

Please join us on the 29 April, 5-6.30pm (GMT) for the next session in the Photoecologies online seminar series:

Esther Leslie: Eyeless with Devices - On Digitised Seeing and Unseeing

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Sam Dolbear, Owen Hatherley and I did this.

#InformaticsOfDomination #May2025 #DukePress Editors: Zach Blas, Melody Jue, Jennifer Rhee Afterword by: Donna J. Haraway Contributors: Dalida María Benfield, micha cárdenas, Amy Sara Carroll, Shu Lea Cheang, Jian Neo Chen, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Stephanie Dinkins, Ricardo Dominguez, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Matthew Fuller, Alexander R. Galloway, Jacob Gaboury, Jennifer Gabrys, Elisa Giardina-Papa, Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Donna J. Haraway, Eva S. Hayward, Stefan Helmreich, Kathy High, Leon Hilton, Ho Rui An, Hi′ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Tung-Hui Hu, Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, Caroline A. Jones, Homay King, Larissa Lai, Lawrence Lek, Esther Leslie, Alexis Lothian, Isadora Neves Marques, Luiza de O. Martins, Nupur Mathur, Shaka McGlotten, Mahan Moalemi, madison moore, Astrida Neimanis, Bahar Noorizadeh, Bathsheba Okwenje, Luciana Parisi, Thao Phan, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Rita Raley, Patricia Reed, Bassem Saad, Ashkan Sepahvand, Justin Talplacido Shoulder, Lucy Suchman, Ollie Zhang https://www.dukeupress.edu/informatics-of-domination

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Esther Leslie über "Walter Benjamin, Politik und Ästhetik", aus "Kunst, Spektakel & Revolution" N°1:

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Spendenaufruf zur Finanzierung der KSR N°9:

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At 20:00, the first of three programmes by Sam Dolbear and me on Ernst Schoen's musical worlds....on Resonance FM and then archived on Mixcloud. Tonight childhood. Of him. Of us. Of radio.

@britishlibrary Not to mention a massive commercial tower overshadowing Somers Town. Plus a vast cavern beneath for a now cancelled Crossrail 2. All hail the Brutish Library.

Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities: Capitalism and Authoritarianism Capitalism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century: A panel Discussion

Join us to discuss at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities with Federico Zappino, Leticia Sabsay and Esther Leslie Capitalism and Authoritarianism. Link with details of when and where the event is taking place and how to book👇🏼

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I was in Lisbon, where there is a Painleve exhibition. It was beautiful to watch this shimmering auto animation. Squids and clumsy medieval.knoghts also feature. Plus a vampire (bat) salute that was strangely Musk-like.

What did The Strand look like in 1823, through the eyes of William Blake at Fountain Court, or Mary Shelley at the church of St Clement's?

@afoggyplace.bsky.social walks us through the buskers, crowds, and pub meetings for radicals in her fascinating article: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...

YouTube video by Andy Wilson AMM5 - Dec 2012

Features Alan Wilkinson (sax), Esther Leslie (on rainbows), Ben Wilson (chewing gum man), Ben Watson / Out to Lunch (talking as such), and Oscillatorial Binnage (electro-improv), Ian Birchall, Nina Power (pre-Imperium) and a cast of hundreds.

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Was the London Mechanics' Institute (now @BirkbeckUoL) a pioneer of the visual lecture? Read @Prof_JPlunkett on the university's fascinating attempts to illustrate knowledge: from diagrams & transparencies to magic lantern shows to live experiments. 19.bbk.ac.uk

Fabulous cinema. Saw the worst film ever there - Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Luckily distracted by cinema environment in-between consulting Wikipedia to work out incomprehensible plot.

Birkbeck's renown London Critical Theory Summer School is back, taking place from 23 June to 4 July 2025. The school is in-person but with a streaming option. The deadline for applications is Friday 10 January 2025. More details: www.bbk.ac.uk/annual-event...

I've just found out that there's a similar film by Jean Painlevé. In case you're not familiar with him, he was a filmmaker and photographer with a background in biology. He was specialized in underwater fauna and he has some experimental films related to that, which were the ones that I knew.

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The cover of a book entitled After Ice: cold humanities for a warming planet, edited by Rafico Ruiz, Paula Schönach, and Rob shields. The title is in white sans serif font on a gradient background with a central band of blue/black that resolves to radiating bands of blue and white: an abstract scene of sea, ice, rock, glacier

TOC: Foreword: Cryopolitics after Ice / ix JOANNA RADIN ond EMMA KOWAL Acknowledgments / xili Introduction: A Cold Humanities after Ice / 3 RAFICO RUIZ, PAULA SCHONACH, and ROB SHIELDS Part 1: Cold Humanities for the Arctic 1 On Cryohuman Relations / 29 CYMENE HOWE 2 I, Nuligak and Indigenous Arctic Temporalities / 47 HESTER BLUM 3 Freeze-up, Breakup, and Colonial Circulation / 77 LIZA PIPER Part 2: Warm, Cool, Icy, Changing Cold Social Conditions 4 Of Mammoths and Meat: Natural History and Artificial Refrigeration in the Nineteenth Century / 105 REBECCA J.H. WOODS

TOC pt 2: vi 5 Material after Ice Rand JEsSica Microbes a nu JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR and JESSICA O'REILLY 6 Archives Melting (and Meltdowns) / 135 MÉL HOGAN and SARAH T. ROBERTS Part 3: The Cultural Afterlives of Ice 7 Perishing Twice: On Play in a Warming World / 149 ALENDA Y. CHANG 8 Afterlife of Ice: Animation and Air / 168 ESTHER LESLIE 9 Contrapuntal Ice / 188 JEFF DIAMANTI 10 On the Techno-Metaphorology of Hibernation /20% ZSOLT MIKLÓSVÖLGYI and MÁRIÓ Z. NEMES Afterword: A Synthesis and Research Agenda for the Cold Humanities / 223 MARK CAREY Contributors / 238 Index / 243

First page of my essay: 2 I, Nuligak and Indigenous Arctic Temporalities HESTER BLUM Contemporary media coverage of global warming stresses that time is running out. News reports feature doomsday countdowns that quantify how many years humans have left to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before climate change is irreversible; stark data visualizations track the precipitous decline of multiyear sea ice in the Arctic in the past decade. The imperative to communicate the urgency of climate mitigation is clear, and the Arctic - a climate multiplier - has been central to this coverage. The language of finality or extinction characterizes the tone of contemporary reportage, couched in environmental grief or eco-melancholia. Climate activists have pushed back against such extinction or doomsday rhetoric on the logic that it discourages change: if annihilation is assured, there is neither time nor reason to act. Yet the ticking clock of popular environmental discourse serves to condense the long-term origins of climate change to its short-term threats. The focus of present-day climate action on the compressed timeline of the current crisis, in other words, can occlude earlier, more protracted or nonlinear timelines of polar climate knowledge and climate change. The temporal exigence of climate crisis is conditioned not just by geography but by cultural, political, and socioeconomic imperatives; what the settler colonial world experiences as present climate emergency, for example, is for Indigenous people only the most recent iteration on a continuum of extractive and genocidal destruction, as Kyle Whyte, Zoe Todd, and others have shown.'

In the mail, this beautiful volume of polar humanities essays on ice. My essay is on the Inuvialuit autobiography *I, Nuligak* (1966) #Arctic #polar #envhist #envhum

Issue 36 features contributions from Luisa Calè, Judith Thompson, Ian Newman, Hilary Fraser, John Plunkett, Laurel Brake, Robyn Jakeman, David McAllister, Isobel Armstrong, Zoe Baron and Beatrice Mossman, Emi Del Bene, Esther Leslie, and Jacqueline Rose.
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Comrade Andreas Malm addresses the closing plenary of the Historical Materialism annual conference in London.

A big thank you to the >1,000 comrades that joined us over the last days for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference. Four days of extensive and comradely debate on every facet of critical Marxist theory.

Now, let's start planning next year!

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