A NEW ARTIST BOOK by James Hugunin

U-Turn Monograph Series #9 (2000)
Fiction, 146 color inkjet pages., over 100 images, 8.5 x 11 in.,

Tarspackled Banner by J.A Ellis as edited by James Hugunin
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Section I: Cover, Frontispiece, and the Editor's Introduction
Section 2: Dear Peeper, 90% of Everything is Crap
Section 3: The Post-Christian Body Spasmeroo
Section 4: The Idiot of the Family and Durfuherman's Nordlandz
Section 5: Fascist Rebellions and Cries of "Pure Octal-Forty"
Section 6: Eco-feminism and Brucine in Arboretum
Section 7: The Chrono-impropa-synclastic Infundibulum, an abrupt ending
Fragments of texts that are Derridean "supplements" to Tarspackled Banner
Introduction to Arboretum (1996); good background to Tarspackled Banner
Chapters One, Three, and Four of Basco's Dilemma (1996); a text that inspired Arboretum

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J. A. Ellis, resident of Chicagary, Usonia. Another Billy Pilgrim is lost in a time of fascist violence and secession. A 21st-century time-traveler's autobiography that recalls Fyodor Dostoevsky's anti-heroic protagonist's raves in Notes from Underground and the curious esoterics of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus. Ellis, a Gen-XXer, confronts the recombinant fascism of Gen-XXXers, taking the reader on a scripto-visual journey into our near future where the Goosestep is even more popular than the Soupy Shuffle.

A text from the future is found and now we are exposed to a "wonky" and "pingful" Newspeak, the vernacular lingo circa 2053 A. D. The tenor of this speech is as if French Absurdist Alfred Jarry and arcane James Joyce met inside cyberpunk William Gibson's Matrix, where all three toiled to produce a new textuality appropriate for the 21st century.