The Fragment Corpora
Dublin Core
Title
The Fragment Corpora
Subject
Other
Description
The images and texts in The Fragment Corpora include a variety of seemingly random elements referencing aerial views, coding, psychological tests, allegories, art history, astronomy, poetry, micro and macro environments, images of wholeness, fragmentation and the mathematical sublime.
Early collections of knowledge about the world, such as libraries and encyclopaedias also include Cabinets of Curiosities. These collections prefigured the museums of modern times, when collectors began to favour taxonomies based on science and history. The digital world, in which we can include AI, is perhaps the most recent episode in this story of ‘completist’ projects which attempt to lay out the world before us.
The book embraces the limitations of such attempts to construct meaningful images of the world we inhabit, acknowledging the optics through which such descriptions are necessarily determined.
The Fragment Corpora seeks to expand the notion of the book into something which can be experienced in a three dimensional space. The pages of the book variously represent projections, prints, lightboxes, screens and online presentations and ultimately a large language model (LLM), currently in development.
Early collections of knowledge about the world, such as libraries and encyclopaedias also include Cabinets of Curiosities. These collections prefigured the museums of modern times, when collectors began to favour taxonomies based on science and history. The digital world, in which we can include AI, is perhaps the most recent episode in this story of ‘completist’ projects which attempt to lay out the world before us.
The book embraces the limitations of such attempts to construct meaningful images of the world we inhabit, acknowledging the optics through which such descriptions are necessarily determined.
The Fragment Corpora seeks to expand the notion of the book into something which can be experienced in a three dimensional space. The pages of the book variously represent projections, prints, lightboxes, screens and online presentations and ultimately a large language model (LLM), currently in development.
Creator
Allan F Parker
Publisher
Pure Land Press
Date
8/03/2026 London publication date
Format
144 pages, wrap around soft cover with open (Swiss) binding
Full colour throughout with spot colour (fluorescent orange) to cover
A QR code on the inside back cover links to a web page with a description of the book
which includes a list of sources, notes etc
Full colour throughout with spot colour (fluorescent orange) to cover
A QR code on the inside back cover links to a web page with a description of the book
which includes a list of sources, notes etc
Book Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
23x17x1.5
Number of Pages
144
Number of images
156
Edition Size
500
Place of Publication
UK/India
Designer
Allan F Parker
Editor
Allan F Parker
Printer
JAK Printers, Mumbai, India
ISBN
978-0-9564105-7-3
Website
www.allanforresterparker.co.uk
URL Link to project
https://www.purelandpress.net/the-fragment-corpora-book/
Where to buy
https://www.purelandpress.net/the-fragment-corpora-book/
Links to reviews
None as yet
Collection
Citation
Allan Parker, “The Fragment Corpora,” Photobook Cafe Photobook Collection, accessed March 18, 2026, https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/2075.