The Afterlives of Georges Perec

The first book on Georges Perec to track his analyses of and influence upon pressing contemporary issues of genre, design, gaming, architecture, mobile media, electronic communication, and computing. Combines attentive, close reading of Perec's own work and solid critical engagement with his ideas. Underscores the enduring importance of Perec's work in the present age, and the need to continue to (re)engage with this work across a variety of sites and social and critical contexts.

These 14 essays examine Georges Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday.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.