Esther Leslie

Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her books include books on Walter Benjamin, one titled Overpowering Conformism (2000), one is in Reaktion’s Critical Lives series (2007); Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde (2002); Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (2005); Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (2011); Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form (2016), and the milk projects, Deeper in the Pyramid (2018) and The Inextinguishable (2020) (both with Melanie Jackson).