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Punctum Books
- Last Year at Betty and Bob's: An Adventure
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- 2018
- Published by: Punctum Books
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Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: An Adventure is the second in a series of three novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. A storyline, or genealogy, tinted a shade of RGB red, is fashioned by thinking through the felt unthought of this between space — a fabulation, an anarchive of what passes through. Lucid dreaming of this type is rife with allusions to conceptual and material goings-on, manifesting in awkward imaginaries. The dream personas are rendered as complex character amalgams with nomadic ages, sexes, genders, and phenotypes. Occurrences of lived “fact” elide with a hallucinatory real as speculation. In An Adventure, a feral feminist artist collective, The Bettys, inhabit a timeless Arcades Project. This is their experiment in wild hypo-consumerism. The event of Red Betty’s fall generates the advent of a turn. A cleaving. The intra-play of personal politics and activist artistic practices is surreally suffused with attention to color, to life and death, to lightness and heaviness.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xii-xv
- Part 1. Tapping
- 1. Netting
- pp. 15-20
- 2. The Society of the Spectral
- pp. 21-24
- 3. Dangles, Bangles, and Dinner
- pp. 25-28
- 4. Bam-ba-lam
- pp. 29-32
- 5. Manifest Epitaph
- pp. 33-36
- 6. Red Betty’s Black/Whiteout
- pp. 37-38
- 7. Umwelt Ticks
- pp. 39-42
- 8. ShazDada Blog Bits
- pp. 43-46
- 9. RIP RGB
- pp. 47-48
- 10. Waking Finnegan
- pp. 49-50
- 11. Baconing
- pp. 51-54
- 12. Dic Cur Hiccup
- pp. 55-60
- 13. Whoa Black Bessie
- pp. 61-64
- Part 2. Mashing
- 14. Blue on Red
- pp. 65-78
- Footnote. Monster Mash
- pp. 79-80
- 15. Red on Blue
- pp. 81-90
- Addendum. Frankly
- pp. 91-92
- 16. Black on Blue
- pp. 93-96
- 17. Infrared on Black
- pp. 97-104
- Footnote. CRISPR on Wikipedia
- pp. 105-106
- 18. Cyan on Red
- pp. 107-108
- 19. Red on Infrared
- pp. 109-110
- Part 3. Bapping
- 20. How to Tender
- pp. 111-120
- 21. Cha Ching! Bada Bing! Bap Ping!
- pp. 121-124
- Footnote. To Sanction Cleavage
- pp. 125-128
- 22. BAD Partying
- pp. 129-132
- 23. Tendencies
- pp. 133-134
- Footnote. Some Fluxus Scores
- pp. 135-136
- 24. RB’s Dream Journal
- pp. 137-142
- Part 4. Mapping
- 25. What’s Love Got to Do with It?
- pp. 143-150
- 26. The Thing Bifurcated Immediately Morphed
- pp. 151-154
- 27. G-Teaming
- pp. 155-158
- 28. Grendel
- pp. 159-162
- 29. Bob’s Notebook/Section Grendel
- pp. 163-164
- Foonote. Slam Dunks
- pp. 165-168
- 30. Geryon
- pp. 169-172
- 31. Read All Over
- pp. 173-176
- 32. Geryon on Grendel
- pp. 177-178
- 33. Grendel on Geryon
- pp. 179-180
- Part 5. Smashing
- 34. Proto-Gamma Betty’s Witness
- pp. 181-190
- 35. The Emphasis Is Different
- pp. 191-192
- 36. ZappaZ
- pp. 193-196
- 37. ShazDada Blog Bits
- pp. 197-198
- Footnote. Black Body on Wikipedia
- pp. 203-204
- 39. White on White
- pp. 205-208
- punctum books
- p. 213
Additional Information
ISBN
9781947447929
Related ISBN(s)
9781947447912
MARC Record
OCLC
1100542758
Pages
212
Launched on MUSE
2021-06-12
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA
Copyright
2018