![]() ![]() ![]() As with Noon's other works, many interesting ideas are conveyed in the story but this particular novel takes place before the birth of the Vurt (indeed the book provides information as to how the birth of the Vurt came about).returnreturnIn Nymphomation, Noon extends himself. ![]() An inventive, energetic, and heartbreaking novel, Vurt is also an optimistic and heartfelt call for artists to actively create open futures. Nymphomation is frenetic prequel to 'Vurt' and 'Pollen' (but chronologically occurring after 'Automated Alice'). ![]() hip malcontents, hooked on the most powerful drug you can imagine. Totally feathered up and living on the dub side Take a trip in a stranger’s head. With Vurt, Noon begins his project of rupturing feedback loops of control by breaking narrative habits and embracing the contingent and unpredictable. Hailed as the novel that reinvented cyberpunk, The 30th Anniversary edition of Jeff Noon’s award winning cult classic, Vurt. So weve taken a leaf out of his book and started our very own book club. 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. 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. This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon’s iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). ![]()
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