The Afterlives of Georges Perec

ISBN-13: 9781474437417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str.

Rowan Wilken; Justin Clemens

Opis

These 14 essays examine Georges Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday.

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.