The Afterlives of Georges Perec

The Afterlives of Georges Perec

by Rowan Wilken (Author), Justin Clemens (Editor)

Synopsis

Examines 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 31 Aug 2018

ISBN 10: 1474437419
ISBN 13: 9781474437417

Author Bio

Rowan Wilken is Principal Research Fellow at RMIT. He is the author of Teletechnologies, Place, and Community (Routledge, 2011), and co-editor of Locative Media (Routledge, 2014) and Mobile Technology and Place (Routledge, 2012).

Justin Clemens is Associate Professor in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne.