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 ✨✨

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…

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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 🔗 goodpress.co.uk/products/dis...

What's going down in Somers Town? weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

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

All gathered neatly. audio.maydayrooms.org/dissonant-wa...

🚨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 👇

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 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.

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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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

CLR James denouncing the invasion of Ethiopia, from aeon.co/essays/c-l-r...

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. 19.bbk.ac.uk

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!