The Afterlives of Georges Perec

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.

Author: Rowan Wilken
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 08/12/2018
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781474437417

About the Author
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.