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Last Year at Betty and Bob's: An Adventure

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Sher Doruff
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

open access

Cover Page

Half-Title Page, Copyright, Title Page

pp. i-ix

Contents

pp. x-xi

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

38. Poof!

pp. 199-202

Footnote. Black Body on Wikipedia

pp. 203-204

39. White on White

pp. 205-208

Figures

pp. 209-212

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pp. 213
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