Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. 1 Posthumous News: The Afterlives of Georges Perec 1
7. PART I: Art of the (Un)realisable
8. 2 Georges Perec’s Enduring Presence in the Visual Arts 23
9. 3 Apoetic Life: Perec, Poetry, Pneumatology 45
10. 4 UnSearching for Rue Simon-Crubellier: Perec Out-of-Sync 69
11. 5 Invoking the Oracle: Perec, Algorithms and Conceptual Writing 85
12. PART II: The Poetics of the Quotidian and Urban Space
13. 6 Georges Perec and the Significance of the Insignificant 105
14. 7 What Perec Was Looking For: Notes on Automation, the Everyday and Ethical Writing 120
15. 8 ‘Things That Should Be Short’: Perec, Sei Shōnagon, Twitter and the Uses of Banality 136
16. PART III: Ludic Intensities and Creative Constraints
17. 9 Perec and the Politics of Constraint 157
18. 10 The Architecture of Constraint and Forgetting 171
19. 11 Georges Perec: A Player’s Manual 189
20. PART IV: Productive Problems of Description and Transcription
21. 12 ‘An Attempt at Exhausting an Augmented Place in Paris’: Georges Perec, Observer-Writer of Urban Life, as a Mobile Locative Media User 205
22. 13 The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog: Perec, Description and the Scene of Everyday Computer Use 226
23. Afterword
24. 14 The Afterlives of a Writer 245
25. Index 257