Esther Leslie

Esther Leslie
FBA
Esther Leslie FBA
Born	1964 (age 59–60)
Title	Professor of political aesthetics
Board member of	Radical Philosophy; Revolutionary History; Historical Materialism; People's Museum: Somers Town;
Academic background
Education	Free University of Berlin
Alma mater	University of Sussex
Influences	Walter Benjamin
Academic work
Discipline	Cultural studies
Institutions	University of East London; Middlesex University; London Guildhall University; London Consortium; Birkbeck;
Main interests	Politics, art and technology
Notable works	Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism
Website	www.militantesthetix.co.uk

Esther Leslie FBA (b. 1964) is a Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London.^[1]^[2] She has taught at Birkbeck since January 2000. She has written on Walter Benjamin, Adorno, Kracauer and the Frankfurt School, and explored themes such as animation, chemical industries, including IG Farben and Imperial Chemical Industries, liquid crystals, fascism and culture, Weimar radio, screen and digital cultures, Marxism and Anarchism, fashion, design and craft, Romanticism, and Black radicalism in Somers Town.