Eventually Dust: On the Particulars of the Present as Seen Through Its Devices': visual culture and

the idea of the end of history, the emergence of the device, the antipathy of the device to dust.

Esther Leslie (b.1964) is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck and Co-Director of the

Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Her research interests are Marxist theories of aesthetics and

culture and critical theory, with a particular focus on the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor

Adorno.