Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her books include The Inextinguishable (2020), Deeper in the Pyramid (2018), both with Melanie Jackson; Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form (Reaktion, 2016), Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (Unkant, 2014), Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (Reaktion, 2005), and Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2002).