Esther Leslie
‘Encounters in the Cloud’
Chair: Professor Kate Lacey, School of Media, Arts and Humanities, CHASE Director, University of Sussex
The digital presses in on us. It has long crept up and surrounded us, absorbed us. These last months never more so. This paper explores the quality of the encounters to be had in the cloud, through the cloud, on it – what languages develop through these new encounters? What are we looking at? What looks at us?
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Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her books include various studies and translations of Walter Benjamin, as well as Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde (Verso, 2002); Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (Reaktion, 2005); Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (Unkant, 2014), Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form (Reaktion, 2016), Deeper in the Pyramid (with Melanie Jackson: Banner Repeater, 2018) and The Inextinguishable (with Melanie)
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