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Risograph-printed page page that reads "Eventual Extremism".

An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations

Kameelah Janan Rasheed, 2019.
 
Serves as a visual A-Z of dissonant experiences, ranging from Cumulative Caskets to Weaponized Watermelon. The pink-speckled texture paired with crude, black cut-out letters enforces a distinctly D-I-Y feel, with the textual centerpieces serving nonsense literature in a brief and digestible form.

The colorfully marbled front cover of Google, Volume 1.

Google, Volume 1

King Zog, 2013.
 
Google, Volume I reproduces the first image shown by a Google Image search for every word in the dictionary. This conceptually contrasts the definitiveness of a linguistic dictionary that is updated annually with Google’s definition of the most relevant image for a given word.                                                                                                                                                                                          

Partially unfolded accordion book filled with black letters on a white background and white letters on a black background.

Alphagami 2

Louise Odes Neaderland., 1999.
 
Neaderland offers a square which unfolds in a complex series of peaks and valleys. An elaborate abstract pattern derived from the letters of the alphabet is printed alongside actual identifiable letters on both the inside and outside of the book.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Closed front cover of book with small black text on a brown-grey background.

The Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage: Arranged by Word Length and Alphabetized within Word Length

Gerald Ferguson, 1978.
 
The Corpus consists of 50,000 one to twenty-letter words, arranged by the author in alphabetical order.


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