Afterlives of Georges Perec

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.

A literally fabulous introduction to Perec’s work, still relatively unknown in the Anglophone world – a treasure trove of clues as to where previously unknown riches are to be found in the multidimensional oeuvre which this Parisian polymath bequeathed us – full of unforeseen marvels and infra-ordinary wonders.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Posthumous News: The Afterlives of Georges Perec, Justin Clemens & Rowan WilkenPart 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 WolffPart 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 WilkenPart 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 ApperleyPart 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 WilkenAfterword14. The Afterlives of a Writer, David BellosIndex