List of Illustrations

1 A Is for Atom. Image by Christian Bök.

2 Magnification of a Full Stop. Image by Christian Bök.

3 Samples from Typography of the Period. Images by Heidi Nelson. Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. Permission: Heidi Nelson.

4 Microphotograph Portrait of Nicéphore Niépce by Emanuel Goldberg. Image by O. Bloch. License: Science Museum Group.

5 IBM in Xenon Atoms. Image by IBM Almaden Research Center. Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. License: Fair Use (Wiki- pedia: NFCC).

6 Culture of D. radiodurans. Image by Christian Bök.

7 Cellule of M. laboratorium. Image by J. Craig Venter Institute. Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. License: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science).

8 Fact. Poem by Craig Dworkin. Permission: Craig Dworkin.

9 Series of Scenes from Cosmic View. Images by Kees Boeke. Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. License: Fair Use (Caltech: NFCC).

10 Series of Scenes from Cosmic Zoom. Images by Eva Szasz. Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. License: National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

11 Series of Scenes from Powers of Ten. Images by the Eames Office. Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. License: PDM 1.0 (Internet Archive).

12 Series of Scenes from Zoom. Images by István Bányai. Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. Fair Use (Penguin Random House UK: NFCC).

13 Logarithmic Illustration of the Observable Universe. Image by Pablo Carlos Budassi. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikipedia).

14 The Mark. Image by Christian Bök.

15 The Letter. Image by Christian Bök.

16 The Syllable. Image by Christian Bök.

17 The Word. Image by Christian Bök.

18 The Phrase. Image by Christian Bök.

19 The Sentence. Image by Christian Bök. License: PDM 1.0 (James Joyce Foundation).

20 The Paragraph. Image by Christian Bök. License: PDM 1.0 (James Joyce Foundation).

21 The Page. Image by Christian Bök. License: PDM 1.0 (James Joyce Foundation).

22 The Book. Image by Christian Bök. License: PDM 1.0 (James Joyce Foundation).

23 The Corpus. Image by Christian Bök. License: PDM 1.0 (James Joyce Foundation).

24 The Archive. Image by Kenneth Goldsmith. Permission: Kenneth Goldsmith.

25 The Library of Babel. Image by Alex Warren. Permission: Alex Warren.

26 The Units of Composition. Image by Christian Bök.

27 Susan, Out for a Pizza. Image by Wim Delvoye: 1996, Laser inkjet on canvas, 132.5 cm × 196.0 cm. Permission: Studio Wim Delvoye.

28 The Kardashev Scale. Image by Christian Bök.

29 Cydonia Planitia. Image by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL). License: PDM 1.0 (NASA JPL).

30 Transiting Objects. Image by Luc Arnold. License: CC (American Astrophysical Society). Permission: Luc Arnold.

31 Hoag’s Object. Image by NASA and Hubble Heritage. License: PDM 1.0 (NASA and Hubble Heritage).

32 CMB Cold Spot in the Eridanus Supervoid. Image by the European Space Agency (ESA). Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. License: CC-BY-SA-NC-3.0-IGO (ESA).

33 Lunar Sites of the Apollo Missions. Images by the NASA Godard Space Flight Center (NASA GSFC). Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. License: PDM 1.0 (NASA GSFC).

34 The Deck of the InSight Lander at Elysium Planitia on Mars. Image by NASA JPL. Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. License: PDM 1.0 (NASA JPL).

35 COVID-19. Glass model and photo by Luke Jerram. Digitally modulated by Christian Bök. Permission: Luke Jerram Ltd.