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  | | Walter Benjamin(1st Edition) (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives) by Esther Leslie Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2008 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-343-7, ISBN: 1-86189-343-4 "Walter Benjamin, critic, essayist, translator, philosopher - one of the twentieth century's most influential intellectuals - continues to intrigue today. His work stimulates a profusion of responses in the form of new novels, operas, films and artworks, as well as a never-abating production of academic texts. In this new biography, the first to be written in over a decade, regarded authority Esther Leslie uses the recently published ent ..." |
 | | Hollywood Flatlands(Updated) Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde by Esther Leslie Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2004 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-504-3, ISBN: 1-84467-504-1 "Brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.With ruminations on drawing, colour and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism. Focusing on the work of aesthetic and political revolutionaries of the inter-war period, Esther Leslie reveal ..." |
 | | On Photography by Walter Benjamin, Esther Leslie Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2015 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78023-525-7, ISBN: 1-78023-525-9 "Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay “A Short History of Photography” is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other writings by Benjamin, some of them presented in English for the fi ..." |
 | | Liquid Crystals The Science and Art of a Fluid Form by Esther Leslie Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78023-645-2, ISBN: 1-78023-645-X "While it is responsible for today’s abundance of flat screens—on televisions, computers, and mobile devices—most of us have only heard of it in the ubiquitous acronym, LCD, with little thought as to exactly what it is: liquid crystal. In this book, Esther Leslie enlightens us, offering an accessible and fascinating look at—not a substance, not a technology—but a wholly different phase of matter. As she explains, liquid cryst ..." |
 | | Walter Benjamin Reimagined(Illustrated) A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams (The MIT Press) by Frances Cannon, Esther Leslie, Scott Bukatman, Professor Esther Leslie, Professor Scott Bukatman Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2019 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03996-3, ISBN: 0-262-03996-6 "An illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments.Walter Benjamin was a man of letters, an art critic, an essayist, a translator, a philosopher, a collector, and an urban flâneur. In his writings, he ambles, samples, and explores. With Walter Benjamin Reimagined, Frances Cannon offers a visual and literary response to Benjamin's work. With detailed and dreamlike pen-and-ink drawings and ..." |
 | | Walter Benjamin Overpowering Conformism (Modern European Thinkers) by Esther Leslie Paperback, 298 Pages, Published 2000 by Pluto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-1568-3, ISBN: 0-7453-1568-2 "Esther Leslie’s path-breaking study of Walter Benjamin is unlike any other book presently available in English on Benjamin, in seeking to make a case for a more politicised reading of Benjamin’s oeuvre. In looking at the entirety of Benjamin’s work - rather than the four or five essays available in English which tend to form the Benjamin ‘canon’ - Leslie offers powerful new insights into a key twentieth-century political thinker, correc ..." |
 | | Synthetic Worlds Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry by Esther Leslie Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2006 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-248-5, ISBN: 1-86189-248-9 ""Synthetic Worlds" considers the remarkable alliance between chemistry and art, taking us from the late eighteenth century to the period immediately following the Second World War. Esther Leslie offers fascinating new insights into the place of the material object and the significance of the natural, the organic, the inorganic and the synthesized in this poetics of science. Through its dazzling innovations, which began in the nineteenth ..." |
 | | Stan Brakhage the realm buster by Esther Leslie, Marco Lori, John Libbey Publishing Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2018 by John Libbey Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-86196-728-5, ISBN: 0-86196-728-3 "Stan Brakhage’s body of work counts as one of the most important within post-war avant-garde cinema, and yet it has rarely been given the attention it deserves. Over the years, though, diverse and original reflections have developed, distancing his figure little by little from critical categories. This collection of newly commissioned essays, plus some important reprinted work, queries some of the consensus on Brakhage’s films. In parti ..." |
 | | The Storyteller Tales out of Loneliness, by Walter Benjamin, Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie, Sebastian Truskolaski, Paul Klee Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-304-4, ISBN: 1-78478-304-8 "A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker s short stories "The Storyteller" gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including "Illuminations," "One-Way Street" and "The Arcades Project." His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, cele ..." |
 | | Academy Zappa(1st Edition) Proceedings Of The First International Conference Of Esemplastic Zappology (ICE-Z) by Esther Leslie, Ben Watson, Esther Watson Leslie Paperback, 255 Pages, Published 2005 by S A F Pub Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-946719-79-2, ISBN: 0-946719-79-9 "Frank Zappa always did it differently, and here his fans do too. With delegates from Paris, Rome, Leipzig and Vauxhall, this parodic conference included papers called “‘Arf’: Canine Continuity in the Output Macrostructure” and “The Mental Hygiene Dilemma.” Zen Buddhism, Frankfurt school Marxism, Philip K. Dick and the Zappologically Deranged are used to denounce Madonna, postmodernism, hippies and everything you hold dear. Priceless. Be ..." |
 | | Dumb Fixity The Impossible Question - Transmission The Rules of Engagement S. No. 14 by Esther Leslie, T.C. Mccormack, Martin J. Gent Paperback, 45 Pages, Published 2012 by Artwords Press 2012-03-23 ISBN-13: 978-1-906441-22-7, ISBN: 1-906441-22-7 |
 | | A Defence of History and Class Consciousness(Updated) Tailism and the Dialectic by Georg Lukacs, John Rees, Esther Leslie, Slovoj Zizek, György Lukács, Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Iek Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-370-3, ISBN: 1-85984-370-0 "Thought to have been destroyed until recently discovered in Moscow's CPSU archives, this polemic by the 'philosopher of the October Revolution' was written in 1923 in response to Stalin's onslaught on his earlier History and Class Consciousness.Georg Lukács was dubbed 'the philosopher of the October Revolution' and his masterpiece History and Class Consciousness (1923) is commonly held to be the foundational text for the tradition known ..." |
 | | A World Redrawn Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood by Zoe Beloff, Hannah Frank, Esther Leslie, Christine Burgin Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2016 by Christine Burgin ISBN-13: 978-0-9778696-8-8, ISBN: 0-9778696-8-7 ""A World Redrawn" is an exploration by the artist Zoe Beloff of Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht's experiences in Hollywood in the 1930s and '40s, what their time in Hollywood meant to them then and what it might mean to us now. Beloff focuses on two unrealized films written during this time: "Glass House" by Eisenstein and "A Model Family" by Brecht.The book reproduces many important and little-known documents from the period, incl ..." |
 | | The House of Words by Esther Leslie, Tessa Peters, Janice West, Calum Storrie, Stephanie Pickford, Philip Sayer Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2009 by Dr Johnson's House Trustrees ISBN-13: 978-1-899284-08-5, ISBN: 1-899284-08-7 |
 | | One Reason To Live Conversations About Music with Julius Nil by Steven Connor, Esther Leslie, Contributor-Andrew Mcgettigan, Contributor-Kaffe Matthews, Contributor-David Toop, Contributor-Andrew Morgan, Contributor-John Parish, Contributor-Eric Roth, Seth Kim-Cohen, Contributor-Scanner, Julius Nil, Brandon Labelle, Ken Vandermark, Ben Watson, Simon Critchley Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 2006 by Errant Bodies Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9655570-9-2, ISBN: 0-9655570-9-X ""If it all came down to one piece of music, what would you choose? How would you justify your choice? On live radio? These are the questions Julius Nil asked every other Sunday for a year on London's Resonance FM, before going to work at Yale under his given name, Seth Kim-Cohen. Includes 12 conversations with influential figures from classical, jazz, rock, pop, cultural theory, philosophy and the burgeoning field of sound art."" |
 | | Willoughby The Suburb And Its People. by Esther Leslie, Jean Michaelides Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 1988 by Municipality Of Willoughby, Sydney 1988 ISBN-13: 978-0-909633-16-5, ISBN: 0-909633-16-9 |
 | | Restless Cities by Matthew Beaumont, Gregory Dart, Contributor-Marshall Berman, Contributor-Iain Borden, Contributor-Kasia Boddy, Contributor-Patrick Keiller, Contributor-Esther Leslie, Contributor-Geoff Dyer, Contributor-Michael Newton, Contributor-Rachel Bowlby, Contributor-Chris Petit, Contributor-Iain Sinclair, Contributor-Michael Sayeau, Contributor-David Trotter, Contributor-Michael Sheringham, Mark W. Turner Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2010 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-405-3, ISBN: 1-84467-405-3 "The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a city-symphony to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, "Restless Cities" traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis. With explorations of phenomena including nightwalking, urbicide, property, commuting and recycling, this wide-rangi ..." |
 | | Walter Benjamin's Archive(1st Edition) Images, Texts, Signs by Walter Benjamin, Ursula Marx, Gudrun Schwarz, Michael Schwarz, Erdmut Wizisla, Esther Leslie, Et Al. Hardcover, 311 Pages, Published 2007 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-196-0, ISBN: 1-84467-196-8 "An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents.The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, art and dreams. It comprises myriad smaller archives, in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts, assortments of images, texts and signs, th ..." |
 | | Mad Pride(2nd Edition) by Robert Dellar, Ted Curtis, Esther Leslie, Ben Watson Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Chipmunkapublishing ISBN-13: 978-0-9525744-2-2, ISBN: 0-9525744-2-X "Mad Pride is set to become the first great civil liberties movement of the 21st century. Sick of discrimination, marginalisation, medication and being treated like shit, psychiatric patients are preparing to rise from the ghettos and make the world a fit place to live in. Featuring 24 authors - including Nick Blinko, Luther Blissett, Chris P and Fatma Durmush - boasting about the wild things they've done when they've been losing it and ..." |
 | | Concept Store(3rd Edition) No. 3: Art, Activism and Recuperation by Tom Trevor, Geoff Cox, Alana Jelinek, Esther Leslie, Glenn Adamson, Ele Carpenter, Lars Bang Larsen, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Nav Haq Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1629 by Arnolfini Gallery Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-907738-97-8, ISBN: 0-907738-97-4 "Concept store is a bi-annual journal, published by Arnolfini, focusing on critical issues of contemporary art and their relationship to wider cultural, social and political contexts." |
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