Bassett, Caroline (2017) What Perec was looking for: notes on automation, the everyday, and ethical writing. In: Wilken, Rowan and Clemens, Justin (eds.) The afterlives of George Perec. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 120-135. ISBN 9781474401241
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This chapter considers Perec’s interest in the infra-ordinary, on the one hand, and questions of the machine and automation, on the other. Investigating different ways in which the micro-scale emerges in Perec’s work raises questions around life in relation to (computational) machines – particularly machines that are getting smaller (at once more discreet, and less discrete) – that are becoming ever more important today. This chapter examines the complex relationship between questions of life (the infra-ordinary life with its embedded habits) and questions concerning classification – here understood as a form of automation, as they are raised (and develop very differently) in Perec’s work on the self, the space, the object, and the language game.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Media, Film and Music > Media and Film |
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Depositing User: | Sarah Maddox |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2019 13:12 |
Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2020 13:57 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/84540 |