Daniel Levin Becker - La forme d’une ville, la ville d’une forme

Lecture date : 2017-02-06 Since 1961, the OuLiPo, a Parisian collective of writers and mathematicians dedicated to exploring the generative potential of formal structures, has used text both conceptually and materially as a space for invention and play. But a somewhat quieter strain in oulipian inquiry tends toward the treatment of space itself as a sort of text, from Georges Perec’s experiments in exhaustive observation to Michelle Grangaud’s metro-station anagrams to a host of newer in situ compositional