Contents

Reader entrances: Explore · Discovery · Guided rabbit holes · Random article.

Explore · Guided rabbit holes · Motifs & objects · Productive tensions · Forms & disguises · Hinge lines · Corpus oddities · Corpus by extremes · Developmental chronology.

Reader maps

Geography and photography

Named places concordance makes the full geographic density of the source corpus visible; JQD photography and Photographic modes track the related visual practice.

Themes and recurring subjects

Themes & recurring subjects maps the subject matter that returns across the corpus independently of genre or medium: mortality, money, intimacy, Los Angeles, technology, institutions, violence, religion, memory, childhood, bodies, deception, collapse, fashion and artistic labor.

Vice / chemical / criminal routes: Drugs, Crime & the Underworld · drugs / intoxication · criminality · underworlds · vice / illicit economies · police / cages.

Fast entrances

Browse by subject

• Published works
• Music
• Projects
• Places
• People & personae
• Organizations
• Concepts & methods
• Recurring structures

Browse by evidence or chronology

• EGOTERRORISM migration ledger
• LTAP migration ledger
• Recurring language
• Quotations
• Chronology
• All articles

Language making

The corpus contains a large independent layer of lexical invention: coined and welded words, sentence-length compounds, sound-writing, false technical vocabulary and titles that behave like miniature works. Browse the JQD Lexicon, the word-machine and the Title Engine.

Number / measure / pattern

• Number, Measure & Pattern — full atlas
• The Number Cabinet — reader-first index by suspicious digit
• Meter, Rhythm & Count
• Numerology, Divination & Charged Number
• Quantified Authority
• Numeric Interface

Reference systems

The Old Books Are Still in the Room · Shakespeare · Scripture · Classical & literary canon · full concordance

Reference domains · history · music · film / TV · art / design / material culture · technology / platforms · sports / games · full cross-domain concordance · cross-domain collisions

Cultural Reference Atlas · Reference Modes · Occultism · Alchemy · Philosophy & theory · Psychiatric vocabulary & altered states

Musical language

Musical Language & Genealogy organizes the roles of jazz, hip-hop, rock lyricism, funk/R&B, spoken word and studio collage across prose and records. Related entrances: Jazz · Hip-Hop · Rock Lyricism · Rhyme / Flow / Cadence · Listening Guide.

Discography reconciliation

JQD Discography & Release Surfaces reconciles Bandcamp, streaming, Substack, LP/DS and missing standalone releases.