List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments

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

Part 1: Art of the (Un)realizable
2. Georges Perec's Enduring Presence in the Visual Arts, Mireille Ribière
3. Apoetic Life: Perec, Poetry, Pneumatology, Justin Clemens
4. UnSearching for Rue Simon-Crubellier: Perec Out-of-Sync, Darren Tofts
5. Invoking the Oracle: Perec, Algorithms, and Conceptual Writing, Mark Wolff

Part 2: The Poetics of the Quotidian and Urban Space
6. Georges Perec and the Significance of the Insignificant, Ben Highmore
7. What Perec Was Looking For: Notes on Automation, The Everyday, and Ethical Writing, Caroline Bassett
8. 'Things That Should Be Short': Perec, Sei Shonagon, Twitter, and the Uses of Banality, Anthony McCosker & Rowan Wilken

Part 3: Ludic Intensities and Creative Constraints
9. Perec and the Politics of Constraint, Alison James
10. The Architecture of Constraint and Forgetting, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady
11. Georges Perec: A Player's Manual, Thomas Apperley

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

Afterword
14. The Afterlives of a Writer, David Bellos

Index

'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.' David Morley, Goldsmiths College A comprehensive examination of the enduring influence of the work of Georges Perec Georges Perec is widely acknowledged as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His far-reaching influence has inspired many fields of creativity, extending far beyond literature itself. The Afterlives of Georges Perec examines the impact of Perec's ideas, writing and analytical experimentation in architecture, art and design, media, electronic communications and computing, and studies of the everyday. It asks: what are the lessons that architects, artists, game-designers and writers can draw from Perec's fascination with creative constraints? What do his 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? How might his fascination with the 'infra-ordinary' shed light on the uses of contemporary social media? What insights might Perec's use of algorithmic writing generate for the digital humanities? 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 Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology. Justin Clemens is Associate Professor in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne. Cover image: Georges Perec rue Vilin, photo Pierre Getzler Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0124-1 Barcode

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.