"Why is there no emoji for...?" with Esther Leslie (OUR002)

In this inaugural episode of The Order of Unmanageable Risks we talk with scholar Esther Leslie about work, exploitation, emojis and corporate digital power. Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her books include 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) and Deeper in the Pyramid (with Melanie Jackson: Banner Repeater, 2018). `She is currently working on a project called Turbid Media, about the new presence of fog, froth and foam in our world and - also - a history and philosophy of the device.