Losing Oneself

Tag: Georges Perce

  • the infraordinary

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    Simon Ellis
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    In Jenny Odell’s book Saving time: discovering a life beyond the clock (2023) she discusses George Perec’s concept of the infraordinary: In A 1973 essay called “Approaches to What?” the French writer Georges Perec coined the term infraordinary. Media and the public perception of time, he wrote, focused on the extraordinary – things outside the…