The Afterlives of Georges Perec

Rowan Wilken, Justin Clemens (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-0124-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Rowan Wilken is Principal Research Fellow of Design and Social Context in the School of Media and Communication 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 Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy and Australian art and literature. His recent books include What is Education? edited with A.J. Bartlett and The Afterlives of Georges Perec edited with Rowan Wilken.

List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgments

Introduction1. Posthumous News: The Afterlives of Georges Perec, Justin Clemens & Rowan Wilken

Part 1: Art of the (Un)realizable2. Georges Perec’s Enduring Presence in the Visual Arts, Mireille Ribière3. Apoetic Life: Perec, Poetry, Pneumatology, Justin Clemens4. UnSearching for Rue Simon-Crubellier: Perec Out-of-Sync, Darren Tofts5. Invoking the Oracle: Perec, Algorithms, and Conceptual Writing, Mark Wolff

Part 2: The Poetics of the Quotidian and Urban Space6. Georges Perec and the Significance of the Insignificant, Ben Highmore7. What Perec Was Looking For: Notes on Automation, The Everyday, and Ethical Writing, Caroline Bassett8. ‘Things That Should Be Short': Perec, Sei Shōnagon, Twitter, and the Uses of Banality, Anthony McCosker & Rowan Wilken

Part 3: Ludic Intensities and Creative Constraints9. Perec and the Politics of Constraint, Alison James10. The Architecture of Constraint and Forgetting, Sandra Kaji-O’Grady11. Georges Perec: A Player’s Manual, Thomas Apperley

Part 4: Productive Problems of Description and Transcription12. ‘"An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris": Georges Perec, Observer-writer of Urban Life, as a Mobile Locative Media User’, Christian Licoppe13. The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog: Perec, Description, and the Scene of Everyday Computer Use, Rowan Wilken

Afterword14. The Afterlives of a Writer, David Bellos

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Erscheinungsdatum	24.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	12 black and white illustrations, 2 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-0124-4 / 1474401244
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-0124-1 / 9781474401241
Zustand	Neuware