Contributor Archive: Esther Leslie
Art, documentary and the essay film
by Esther Leslie / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article, Philosophy of the Essay Film
Film as document
The moment when Siegfried Kracauer knew that he wanted to write of film as what he terms the ‘Discover of the Marvels of Everyday Life’ is relayed in his introduction to the Theory of Film from 1960. [1] Kracauer recalls watching a film long ago that shows a …
186 Reviews
by Esther Leslie, Stefano Pippa, Tom Eyers, Mark Kelly, Andrew McGettigan, Matthew Charles, Adam Knowles, Richard Braude and Raymond Geuss / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / Reviews
Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
– Esther Leslie
Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War
– Stefano Pippa Justin Clemens, Psychoanalysis is an Anti-Philosophy – Tom Eyers Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power – Mark Kelly …
Look at his marvellous hands!
by Esther Leslie / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Review
Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers, Yale University Press, New Haven CT and London, 2013. 336 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 30015 193 0.
Yvonne Sherratt’s book on the response of philosophers to the Third Reich is written in the style of a docudrama. There are colourful descriptions of foliage in Heidegger’s Todtnauberg and peasants in ‘folksy …
180 Reviews
Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers
Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, eds., History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past
David Joselit, After Art
Christoph Menke, Force: A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology
Robert Sinnerbrink, New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images
David Webb, Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation
Michel Serres, Biogea & Variations on the Body
Laurence Paul Hemming, Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism
Carl Cederström and Peter Fleming, Dead Man Working
by Esther Leslie, Lynne Segal, Todd Cronan, Tom Eyers, Christopher Ruth, Douglas Spencer, Yaiza Maria Hernandez Velazquez, Garin V. Dowd and Ron Broglio / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Reviews
161 Reviews
by Esther Leslie, Alex Callinicos, Chris Wilbert, Mark Fisher, Antonio Venezia and Matthew Charles / RP 161 (May/Jun 2010) / Reviews
Sylvère Lotringer, ed., The German Issue Gudrun Ensslin and Bernward Vesper, ‘Notstandgesetze von Deiner Hand’: Briefe 1968/1969 Esther Leslie
G.A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism? Alex Callinicos
Brett Buchanan, Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze Chris Wilbert
Jim McGuigan, Cool Capitalism Mark Fisher
Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza Antonio Venezia
Erdmut Wizisla, …
Flux and flurry
Stillness and hypermovement in animated worlds
by Esther Leslie / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) / Article
Doing something and doing nothing
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project
by Esther Leslie / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article, documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
137 Reviews
by Terry Eagleton, Chris Thompson, Kaye Mitchell, Esther Leslie and Craig Brandist / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Reviews
Mark Neocleous, The Monstrous and the Dead: Burke, Marx, Fascism Terry Eagleton
Alexei Monroe, Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK Chris Thompson
Cecilia Sjöholm, The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire Kaye Mitchell
Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjaminʼs ʻOn the Concept of Historyʼ Esther Leslie
Nikolai Bukharin, Philosophical Arabesques Craig Brandist
From stillness to movement and back
Cartoon theory today
by Esther Leslie / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Commentary
Walter Benjamin und die Künste, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, October 2004–January 2005
Crevices and footholds
by Esther Leslie / RP 131 (May/Jun 2005) / Reviews
Brian Ferneyhough/Charles Bernstein, Shadowtime, Prinzregententheater, Munich, 25 May 2004
by Esther Leslie / RP 127 (Sep/Oct 2004) / Reviews
125 Reviews
by Martin Ryle, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Esther Leslie, Lorenzo Chiesa, Darren Ambrose, Lucy OMeara and Liam O’Ruairc / RP 125 (May/Jun 2004) / Reviews
Gilbert Achcar, The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder Verna V. Gehring, ed., War after September 11 Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia, eds, Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11 Alain Joxe, Empire of Disorder Martin Ryle
Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Charity …
Indeterminate! Communism, Goethe University of Frankfurt, 7–9 November 2003
by Esther Leslie / RP 124 (Mar/Apr 2004) / Conference Report
[Anti-]Globalica: Conceptual and Artistic Tensions in the New Global, Disorder, Wroclaw, Poland, 1 May 2003
by Esther Leslie / RP 121 (Sep/Oct 2003) / Conference Report
‘Siegfried Kracauer’, University of Birmingham, 13–14 September 2002
by Esther Leslie / RP 116 (Nov/Dec 2002) / Conference Report
113 Reviews
by Stella Sandford, Alberto Toscano, Esther Leslie, Jeremy Till, Philip Derbyshire and Gideon Calder / RP 113 (May/Jun 2002) / Reviews
Rudi Visker, Truth and Singularity: Taking Foucault into Phenomenology Stella Sandford
Gary Gutting, French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century Jason Barker, Alain Badiou: A Critical Introduction Alberto Toscano
Anselm Jappe, Guy Debord Andrew Hussey, The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord Esther Leslie
Sanford Kwinter, Architectures of Time: Towards a Theory …
Towards a Politics of Truth: The Retrieval of Lenin, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, 2–4 February 2001
by Esther Leslie / RP 107 (May/Jun 2001) / Conference Report
105 Reviews
by Carolyn Steedman, John Roberts, Esther Leslie, Kate Soper, Philip Derbyshire, Alan Murray and Arto Laitinen / RP 105 (Jan/Feb 2001) / Reviews
Adriana Cavarero, Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood Carolyn Steedman
Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left John Roberts
Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive Victor Jeleniewski Seidler, Shadows of the Shoah: Jewish Identity and Belonging Esther Leslie
Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of …
Art, documentary and the essay film
by Esther Leslie / RP 192 (July/Aug 2015) / Article, Philosophy of the Essay FilmFilm as document
The moment when Siegfried Kracauer knew that he wanted to write of film as what he terms the ‘Discover of the Marvels of Everyday Life’ is relayed in his introduction to the Theory of Film from 1960. [1] Kracauer recalls watching a film long ago that shows a …
186 Reviews
by Esther Leslie, Stefano Pippa, Tom Eyers, Mark Kelly, Andrew McGettigan, Matthew Charles, Adam Knowles, Richard Braude and Raymond Geuss / RP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) / Reviews
Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
– Esther Leslie
Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War
– Stefano Pippa Justin Clemens, Psychoanalysis is an Anti-Philosophy – Tom Eyers Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power – Mark Kelly …
Look at his marvellous hands!
by Esther Leslie / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / ReviewYvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers, Yale University Press, New Haven CT and London, 2013. 336 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 30015 193 0.
Yvonne Sherratt’s book on the response of philosophers to the Third Reich is written in the style of a docudrama. There are colourful descriptions of foliage in Heidegger’s Todtnauberg and peasants in ‘folksy …
180 Reviews
Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers
Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, eds., History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past
David Joselit, After Art
Christoph Menke, Force: A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology
Robert Sinnerbrink, New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images
David Webb, Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation
Michel Serres, Biogea & Variations on the Body
Laurence Paul Hemming, Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism
Carl Cederström and Peter Fleming, Dead Man Working
by Esther Leslie, Lynne Segal, Todd Cronan, Tom Eyers, Christopher Ruth, Douglas Spencer, Yaiza Maria Hernandez Velazquez, Garin V. Dowd and Ron Broglio / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Reviews
161 Reviews
by Esther Leslie, Alex Callinicos, Chris Wilbert, Mark Fisher, Antonio Venezia and Matthew Charles / RP 161 (May/Jun 2010) / ReviewsSylvère Lotringer, ed., The German Issue Gudrun Ensslin and Bernward Vesper, ‘Notstandgesetze von Deiner Hand’: Briefe 1968/1969 Esther Leslie
G.A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism? Alex Callinicos
Brett Buchanan, Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze Chris Wilbert
Jim McGuigan, Cool Capitalism Mark Fisher
Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza Antonio Venezia
Erdmut Wizisla, …
Flux and flurry
Stillness and hypermovement in animated worldsby Esther Leslie / RP 152 (Nov/Dec 2008) / Article
Doing something and doing nothing
Dossier: documenta 12 magazines project
by Esther Leslie / RP 141 (Jan/Feb 2007) / Article, documenta 12 magazines project, Dossier
137 Reviews
by Terry Eagleton, Chris Thompson, Kaye Mitchell, Esther Leslie and Craig Brandist / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / ReviewsMark Neocleous, The Monstrous and the Dead: Burke, Marx, Fascism Terry Eagleton
Alexei Monroe, Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK Chris Thompson
Cecilia Sjöholm, The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire Kaye Mitchell
Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjaminʼs ʻOn the Concept of Historyʼ Esther Leslie
Nikolai Bukharin, Philosophical Arabesques Craig Brandist
From stillness to movement and back
Cartoon theory todayby Esther Leslie / RP 137 (May/Jun 2006) / Commentary
Walter Benjamin und die Künste, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, October 2004–January 2005
Crevices and footholdsby Esther Leslie / RP 131 (May/Jun 2005) / Reviews
Brian Ferneyhough/Charles Bernstein, Shadowtime, Prinzregententheater, Munich, 25 May 2004
by Esther Leslie / RP 127 (Sep/Oct 2004) / Reviews125 Reviews
by Martin Ryle, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Esther Leslie, Lorenzo Chiesa, Darren Ambrose, Lucy OMeara and Liam O’Ruairc / RP 125 (May/Jun 2004) / ReviewsGilbert Achcar, The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder Verna V. Gehring, ed., War after September 11 Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia, eds, Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11 Alain Joxe, Empire of Disorder Martin Ryle
Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Charity …
Indeterminate! Communism, Goethe University of Frankfurt, 7–9 November 2003
by Esther Leslie / RP 124 (Mar/Apr 2004) / Conference Report[Anti-]Globalica: Conceptual and Artistic Tensions in the New Global, Disorder, Wroclaw, Poland, 1 May 2003
by Esther Leslie / RP 121 (Sep/Oct 2003) / Conference Report‘Siegfried Kracauer’, University of Birmingham, 13–14 September 2002
by Esther Leslie / RP 116 (Nov/Dec 2002) / Conference Report113 Reviews
by Stella Sandford, Alberto Toscano, Esther Leslie, Jeremy Till, Philip Derbyshire and Gideon Calder / RP 113 (May/Jun 2002) / ReviewsRudi Visker, Truth and Singularity: Taking Foucault into Phenomenology Stella Sandford
Gary Gutting, French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century Jason Barker, Alain Badiou: A Critical Introduction Alberto Toscano
Anselm Jappe, Guy Debord Andrew Hussey, The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord Esther Leslie
Sanford Kwinter, Architectures of Time: Towards a Theory …
Towards a Politics of Truth: The Retrieval of Lenin, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, 2–4 February 2001
by Esther Leslie / RP 107 (May/Jun 2001) / Conference Report105 Reviews
by Carolyn Steedman, John Roberts, Esther Leslie, Kate Soper, Philip Derbyshire, Alan Murray and Arto Laitinen / RP 105 (Jan/Feb 2001) / ReviewsAdriana Cavarero, Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood Carolyn Steedman
Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left John Roberts
Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive Victor Jeleniewski Seidler, Shadows of the Shoah: Jewish Identity and Belonging Esther Leslie
Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of …