The Afterlives of Georges Perec

ISBN-13: 9781474401241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str.

Rowan Wilken;Justin Clemens

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Posthumous News: The Afterlives of Georges Perec, Justin Clemens & Rowan Wilken; I: Art of the (Un)realizable; 2. Georges Perec’s Enduring Presence in the Visual Arts, Mireille Ribière; 3. Apoetic Life: Perec, Poetry, Pneumatology, Justin Clemens; 4. UnSearching for Rue Simon-Crubellier: Perec Out-of-Sync, Darren Tofts; 5. Invoking the Oracle: Perec, Algorithms, and Conceptual Writing, Mark Wolff; II: The Poetics of the Quotidian and Urban Space; 6. Georges Perec and the Significance of the Insignificant, Ben Highmore; 7. What Perec Was Looking For: Notes on Automation, The Everyday, and Ethical Writing, Caroline Bassett; 8. ‘“Things That Should Be Short”: Perec, Sei Shōnagon, Twitter, and the Uses of Banality’, Anthony McCosker & Rowan Wilken; III: Ludic Intensities and Creative Constraints; 9. Perec and the Politics of Constraint, Alison James; 10. The Architecture of Constraint and Forgetting, Sandra Kaji-O’Grady; 11. Georges Perec: A Player’s Manual, Thomas Apperley; IV: Productive Problems of Description and Transcription; 12. ‘“An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris”: Georges Perec, Observer-writer of Urban Life, as a Mobile Locative Media User’, Christian Licoppe; 13. The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog: Perec, Description, and the Scene of Everyday Computer Use, Rowan Wilken; Afterword; 14. The Afterlives of a Writer, David Bellos; Index.