Silver feathers for techies who know how to remix colors and open new dimensions. Publications: Woundings (play), 1986 Vurt (novel), 1993 Pollen (sequel to Vurt), 1995. Career: Musician, community artist, bookseller, playwright, and author. Genres: Science fiction/Fantasy, Plays/ Screenplays. Blacks, filled with tenderness and pain, just beyond the law. Noon, Jeff views 3,618,950 updated NOON, Jeff NOON, Jeff. It comes in many colors: legal Blues for lullaby dreams. An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also an optimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures. Book blurb: Vurt is a feathera drug, a dimension, a dream state, a virtual reality. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. Finally, Wenaus makes the case for Vurt’s ongoing relevance in the 21st century, an era increasingly characterized by neuro-totalitarianism, psychopolitics, and digital surveillance. Like Moorcock, Noon is not preoccupied with technology per se, but incorporates technological developments into a world of magic and fantasy. In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its constructivist relationship to genre, its violent and oneiric setting of Manchester, its use of the Orphic myth as an archetype for the practice of literary collage and musical remix, and how the structural paradoxes of chaos and fractal geometry inform the novel’s content, form, and theme. Vurt, was the hippest sci-fi novel to be published in Britain since the days of Michael Moorcock in the late sixties. This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon’s iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993).

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