Esther Rose Leslie
@afoggyplace.bsky.social
Somers Towner, militant aesthete.
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
Translation is a snowglobe, if you want to understand something very well or just better put it inside a snowglobe and shake it a bit, words will move around and magic ✨✨
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Translation is a snowglobe, if you want to understand something very well or just better put it inside a snowglobe and shake it a bit, words will move around and magic ✨✨
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
ICA Miami hosted a fall seminar series led last week by @afoggyplace.bsky.social and this week by Tom Gunning. Truly edifying. Now watching Vertigo to reflect on the concept of simulacrum…
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ICA Miami hosted a fall seminar series led last week by @afoggyplace.bsky.social and this week by Tom Gunning. Truly edifying. Now watching Vertigo to reflect on the concept of simulacrum…
Reposted by 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!
September 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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!
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
📙 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
🔗 goodpress.co.uk/products/dis...
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
🔗 goodpress.co.uk/products/dis...
May 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
📙 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
🔗 goodpress.co.uk/products/dis...
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
🔗 goodpress.co.uk/products/dis...
What's going down in Somers Town?
weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
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 …
weirdeconomies.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
What's going down in Somers Town?
weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
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
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
June 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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
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
All gathered neatly.
audio.maydayrooms.org/dissonant-wa...
audio.maydayrooms.org/dissonant-wa...
MayDay Radio | Dissonant Waves
MayDay Radio is a volunteer-run experiment in oral histories and sound production; it is a place to share equipment and skills; it is a platform to create new oral histories and activate existing arch...
audio.maydayrooms.org
June 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
All gathered neatly.
audio.maydayrooms.org/dissonant-wa...
audio.maydayrooms.org/dissonant-wa...
Reposted by Esther Rose 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
INFO & REGISTER 👇
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
INFO & REGISTER 👇
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.
amielandmelburn.org.uk
May 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨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
INFO & REGISTER 👇
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
INFO & REGISTER 👇
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
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
April 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
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
To attend the talk, please register via our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-les...
Esther Leslie: Eyeless with Devices - On Digitised Seeing and Unseeing
To attend the talk, please register via our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-les...
April 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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
To attend the talk, please register via our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-les...
Esther Leslie: Eyeless with Devices - On Digitised Seeing and Unseeing
To attend the talk, please register via our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-les...
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/di...
Sam Dolbear, Owen Hatherley and I did this.
Sam Dolbear, Owen Hatherley and I did this.
Dissonant Waves - 3 April 2025
www.mixcloud.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/di...
Sam Dolbear, Owen Hatherley and I did this.
Sam Dolbear, Owen Hatherley and I did this.
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
January 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
Esther Leslie über "Walter Benjamin, Politik und Ästhetik", aus "Kunst, Spektakel & Revolution" N°1:
spektakel.org/broschur/bro...
Spendenaufruf zur Finanzierung der KSR N°9:
spektakel.org/spendenaufru...
spektakel.org/broschur/bro...
Spendenaufruf zur Finanzierung der KSR N°9:
spektakel.org/spendenaufru...
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Esther Leslie über "Walter Benjamin, Politik und Ästhetik", aus "Kunst, Spektakel & Revolution" N°1:
spektakel.org/broschur/bro...
Spendenaufruf zur Finanzierung der KSR N°9:
spektakel.org/spendenaufru...
spektakel.org/broschur/bro...
Spendenaufruf zur Finanzierung der KSR N°9:
spektakel.org/spendenaufru...
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.
March 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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.
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
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👇🏼
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities: Capitalism and Authoritarianism
Capitalism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century: A panel Discussion
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/48052/centre-for-the-study-of-law-and-the-humanities-capitalism-and-authoritarianism?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0S71VnKJimbzVGjTWVEnqMOXgHz-MA3JNII4tHALHN_zX1H-chMHKVKzs_aem_E6i5ys17M9_55Rm—WNN_g
February 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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👇🏼
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
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...
@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...
February 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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...
@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...
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGxF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGxF...
AMM5 - Dec 2012
YouTube video by Andy Wilson
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGxF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGxF...
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
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
January 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
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...
Upcoming summer school — Birkbeck, University of London
Read about the speakers and topics that will be covered in this year's Summer School.
www.bbk.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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...
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
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.
December 1, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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.
Reposted by Esther Rose Leslie
CLR James denouncing the invasion of Ethiopia, from aeon.co/essays/c-l-r...
November 27, 2024 at 8:26 PM
CLR James denouncing the invasion of Ethiopia, from aeon.co/essays/c-l-r...