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Climate Collapse not Climate Change @[email protected] · 2026-07-21 · 12:27 UTC

One of the key themes of Georges Perec's novel Life: A User's Manual (La Vie mode d'emploi) (1978) has to do with the ephemeral nature of art and even architecture.

History itself may resist our efforts to pin it to a board like an insect, but may be the only thing, even as it passes, that isn't a passing fancy.

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Brian Lavelle has moved @[email protected] · 2025-06-04 · 21:25 UTC

#NowReading Georges Perec - The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise (Verso Books).

I’d never encountered this short work by Perec before, but it’s suffused with his typical playfulness and comic flair, while also being a prescient social commentary on the lowliness of the office worker and corporate control. Has a great foreword by Perec’s greatest translator and biographer, David Bellos.

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https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2182-the-art-of-asking-your-boss-for-a-raise

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