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Intro -- The Afterlives of Georges Perec -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Posthumous News: The Afterlives of Georges Perec -- 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 -- 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 -- 9 Perec and the Politics of Constraint -- 10 The Architecture of Constraint and Forgetting -- 11Georges Perec: A Player's Manual -- 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 Overthe Lazy Dog: Perec, Description and the Scene of Everyday Computer Use -- Afterword -- 14 The Afterlives of a Writer -- Index. These 14 essays examine Georges Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday. 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 ÃǾ²Ơ℗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. Contributors. Tom Apperley, Monash University, Australia. Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK. David Bellos, Princeton, USA. Justin Clemens, University of Melbourne, Australia. Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, UK. Alison James, University of Chicago, USA. Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, University of Sydney, Australia. Christian Licoppe, TóÂ♭lóÂ♭com ParisTech, France. Anthony McCosker, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Mireille Ribió·re, independent scholar, translator and author. Darren Tofts, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Rowan Wilken, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. Mark Wolff, Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, USA
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