The Afterlives of Georges Perec

These 14 Essays Examine Georges Perec's Impact On Architecture, Art, Design, Media, Electronic Communications, Computing And The Everyday.
• What Do Perec's Descriptions Of The Minutiae Of Everyday Life Reveal About Our Use Of Information And Communications Technologies?• What Happens If We Read Life: A User's Manual As A Toolbox Of Ideas For Games Studies?• What Light Does The Concept Of The 'infra-ordinary' Shed On Social Media?• What Insights Does Algorithmic Writing Generate For The Digital Humanities?• What Lessons Can Architects, Artists, Game-designers And Writers Draw From Perec's Fascination With Creative Constraints?
through An Examination Of Such Questions, This Collection Takes Perec Scholarship Beyond Its Existing Limits To Offer New Ways Of Rethinking Our Present. Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes On Contributors -- 1 Posthumous News: The Afterlives Of Georges Perec -- Part I: Art Of The (un)realisable -- 2 Georges Perec’s Enduring Presence In The Visual Arts -- 3 Apoetic Life: Perec, Poetry, Pneumatology -- 4 Unsearching For Rue Simon-crubellier: Perec Out-of-sync -- 5 Invoking The Oracle: Perec, Algorithms And Conceptual Writing -- Part Ii: The Poetics Of The Quotidian And Urban Space -- 6 Georges Perec And The Significance Of The Insignificant -- 7 What Perec Was Looking For: Notes On Automation, The Everyday And Ethical Writing -- 8 ‘things That Should Be Short’: Perec, Sei Shōnagon, Twitter And The Uses Of Banality -- Part Iii: Ludic Intensities And Creative Constraints -- 9 Perec And The Politics Of Constraint -- 10 The Architecture Of Constraint And Forgetting -- 11 Georges Perec: A Player’s Manual -- Part Iv: Productive Problems Of Description And Transcription -- 12 ‘an Attempt At Exhausting An Augmented Place In Paris’: Georges Perec, Observer-writer Of Urban Life, As A Mobile Locative Media User -- 13 The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog: Perec, Description And The Scene Of Everyday Computer Use -- Afterword -- 14 The Afterlives Of A Writer -- Index Edited By Rowan Wilken And Justin Clemens. Title From Publisher's Bibliographic System (viewed On 05 Jan 2018). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Print.