Porte Planète; Ville Canale --parisian knobs /visually/ turned to \textual\ currents

Abstract

Focusing on the works of Guy Debord, Chris Marker and Georges Perec, this dissertation is a study of interdisciplinary practices as they transform the art of writing and everyday experiences of the city. With a major emphasis on the sensorial differences and affinities between textual and visual media, the chapters – each of which focuses on a close reading of a work by one individual – look at the three interdisciplinary figures as they work separately as innovators in their fields and how, when looked at comparatively, paint a portrait of changing creative sensibilities relevant to both their respective time periods and digitizing ones on the horizon. Central, too, to this examination of elasticizing imaginations, new ways of reflecting and collaborations between different artistic practices and writing techniques are shifting notions of home, mobility and familiarity.