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oapen-20.500.12657-253972022-07-21T14:40:15Z Last Year at Betty and Bob's: A Novelty Doruff, Sher primary colors transhumanism fiction consumerism feminism art collective artistic research bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: A Novelty is the first in a series of 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 blue, 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 A Novelty, Bette B, an ageing quasi-academic artist researcher, and BØB, attuned urban rodent, are palindromic variants of a generic cast of Betty’s and Bob’s. The happenstance of their meeting on the super slick POMOC (PostOffice MotionCorridor) affects a trans-special contagion. These are the facts of the matter. The matters that come to concern both B’s are more slippery and elusive. 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:37:46Z 2020-04-01T10:37:46Z 2018 book 1004698 OCN: 1100489398 9781947447806 9781947477790 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25397 eng de16fb86-a0bd-400c-aef0-98c99643216b application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 1004698.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0233.1.00 10.21983/P3.0233.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781947447806 9781947477790 ScholarLed 172 Brooklyn, NY open access
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Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: A Novelty is the first in a series of 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 blue, 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 A Novelty, Bette B, an ageing quasi-academic artist researcher, and BØB, attuned urban rodent, are palindromic variants of a generic cast of Betty’s and Bob’s. The happenstance of their meeting on the super slick POMOC (PostOffice MotionCorridor) affects a trans-special contagion. These are the facts of the matter. The matters that come to concern both B’s are more slippery and elusive.
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