The Corpus

206 works, read structurally.

Each work is classified by how it engages its domain's generative core — as Infrastructure, Distribution, Exploitation, or Refusal — within a documented framework. Browse by position: Infrastructure, Distribution, Exploitation, Refusal.

By kernel

Architecture (23)

Brion Cemetery — Carlo Scarpa (1978)Refusal
Centre Georges Pompidou — Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers (1977)Distribution
Centre Pompidou — Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers (1977)Exploitation
Chartres Cathedral — Medieval builders (1220)Distribution
Chartres Cathedral — Unknown (Medieval) (1220)Exploitation · Refusal
Church of Christ the Worker, Atlantida — Eladio Dieste (1960)Exploitation
Church of the Light — Tadao Ando (1989)Exploitation
CNIT Hall — Bernard Zehrfuss, Robert Camelot, and Jean de Mailly (1958)Exploitation
Fallingwater — Frank Lloyd Wright (1936)Distribution
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao — Frank Gehry (1997)Exploitation
Hagia Sophia — Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus (537)Infrastructure
Hagia Sophia — nave spatial experience — Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus (537)Infrastructure
Heydar Aliyev Center — Zaha Hadid Architects (2012)Refusal
Jewish Museum Berlin — Daniel Libeskind (1999)Refusal
Munich Olympic Stadium — Frei Otto (1972)Exploitation
Notre-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp — Le Corbusier (1955)Exploitation
Palazzetto dello Sport — Pier Luigi Nervi (1960)Exploitation
Pantheon — Roman builders (125)Infrastructure
Sagrada Família — Antoni Gaudí (1882)Exploitation
Salginatobel Bridge — Robert Maillart (1930)Exploitation · ↑
Seagram Building — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1958)Refusal
Sydney Opera House — Jørn Utzon (1973)Exploitation
Therme Vals — Peter Zumthor (1996)Exploitation · ↑

Cinema (35)

2001: A Space Odyssey — Stanley Kubrick (1968)Distribution · Exploitation · Refusal · ↑
Battleship Potemkin — Sergei Eisenstein (1925)Exploitation · ↑
Breathless — Jean-Luc Godard (1960)Exploitation
Casablanca — Michael Curtiz (1942)Infrastructure
Dreams — Akira Kurosawa (1990)Exploitation
Drowning by Numbers — Peter GreenawayExploitation
Empire — Andy Warhol (1964)Refusal
Ikiru — Akira Kurosawa (1952)Infrastructure
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles — Chantal Akerman (1975)Refusal
L'Avventura — Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)Exploitation · ↑
Landscape in the Mist — Theo Angelopoulos (1988)Exploitation · ↑
Man with a Movie Camera — Dziga Vertov (1929)Exploitation
Memento — Christopher Nolan (2000)Exploitation
Meshes of the Afternoon — Maya Deren (1943)Exploitation
Mirror — Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)Refusal
Mulholland Drive — David Lynch (2001)Refusal
North by Northwest — Crop Duster Sequence — Alfred Hitchcock (1959)Exploitation
Psycho — Shower Scene — Alfred Hitchcock (1960)Exploitation
Ran — Akira Kurosawa (1985)Infrastructure
Rear Window — Alfred Hitchcock (1954)Infrastructure
Rules of the Game — Jean Renoir (1939)Infrastructure
Russian Ark — Alexander Sokurov (2002)Exploitation · Refusal · ↑
Sátántangó — Béla Tarr (1994)Exploitation · Refusal · ↑
Seven Samurai — Akira Kurosawa (1954)Infrastructure · ↑
Stalker — Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)Refusal
Stray Dog — Akira Kurosawa (1949)Infrastructure
The Baby of Mâcon — Peter GreenawayRefusal
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover — Peter Greenaway (1989)Infrastructure
The Godfather — Francis Ford Coppola (1972)Distribution · Infrastructure
The Godfather — Baptism Sequence — Francis Ford Coppola (1972)Distribution
The Red and the White — Miklós Jancsó (1967)Exploitation · ↑
The Thin Red Line — Terrence Malick (1998)Exploitation
Throne of Blood — Akira Kurosawa (1957)Refusal
Tokyo Story — Yasujirō Ozu (1953)Exploitation · ↑
Vertigo — Alfred Hitchcock (1958)Infrastructure

Literature (13)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James JoyceExploitation
Bleak House — Charles DickensExploitation
Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad (1899)Distribution
Madame Bovary — Gustave FlaubertDistribution
Moby Dick — Herman MelvilleExploitation
Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf (1925)Exploitation
Pride and Prejudice — Jane AustenDistribution
Swann's Way — Marcel Proust (1913)Exploitation · ↑
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)Distribution
The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway (1952)Infrastructure
The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway (1926)Infrastructure
The Trial — Franz Kafka (1925)Refusal
The Wings of the Dove — Henry James (1902)Exploitation

Music (39)

A Love Supreme — John Coltrane (1965)Infrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 145 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 197 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 245 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 248 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 252 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 292 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 332 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 351 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 427 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 48 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 6 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 67 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Bach Chorale BWV 88 — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Chaconne (from Partita No. 2 in D minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004) — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Confield — AutechreRefusal
Crescent — John Coltrane (1964)Infrastructure
Expression — John Coltrane (1967)Refusal
Giant Steps — John ColtraneExploitation
Goldberg Variations — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Interstellar Space — John ColtraneRefusal
Kind of Blue — Miles Davis (1959)Infrastructure
L'Orfeo — Claudio Monteverdi (1607)Infrastructure
Meditations — John Coltrane (1966)Refusal
Om — John Coltrane (1965)Refusal
Pierrot lunaire — Arnold SchoenbergRefusal
Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune — Claude DebussyDistribution
Romeo and Juliet (ballet) — Sergei Prokofiev (1935)Infrastructure
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 — Johannes Brahms (1885)Infrastructure
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788)Infrastructure
The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1750)Infrastructure
The Bagatelles for String Quartet Op. 9 — Anton WebernRefusal
The Rite of Spring — Igor StravinskyExploitation
The Well-Tempered Clavier — Johann Sebastian BachInfrastructure
Three Compositions for Piano — Milton BabbittRefusal
To Pimp a Butterfly — Kendrick LamarRefusal
Transition — John Coltrane (1965)Refusal
Tri Repetae — AutechreRefusal
West End Blues — Louis Armstrong (1928)Infrastructure

Painting (46)

1957-D No. 1 — Clyfford Still (1957)Exploitation
Abstract Painting (809-4) — Gerhard Richter (1994)Exploitation
Abstract Painting No. 5 — Ad Reinhardt (1962)Refusal
Ad Parnassum — Paul Klee (1932)Exploitation
Alpha-Phi — Morris Louis (1961)Exploitation
Battle of Fishes — André Masson (1926)Exploitation
Beginning — Kenneth Noland (1958)Exploitation
Black Square — Kazimir Malevich (1915)Refusal
Campbell's Soup Cans — Andy Warhol (1962)Refusal
Carcass of Beef — Chaim Soutine (1925)Exploitation
Composition VII — Wassily Kandinsky (1913)Exploitation
Composition with Red Blue and Yellow — Piet Mondrian (1930)Exploitation
Departure — Max Beckmann (1935)Refusal
Die Fahne Hoch! — Frank Stella (1959)Refusal
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 70 — Robert Motherwell (1961)Exploitation
Erased de Kooning Drawing — Robert Rauschenberg (1953)Refusal
Europe After the Rain II — Max Ernst (1942)Exploitation
Fifty Days at Iliam — Cy Twombly (1978)Exploitation
Flag — Jasper Johns (1955)Exploitation
Girl with a Pearl Earring — Johannes Vermeer (1665)Distribution
Grand Street Brides — Grace Hartigan (1954)Exploitation
Homage to the Square: Apparition — Josef Albers (1959)Exploitation
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — Pablo Picasso (1907)Exploitation
Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry — Paul Cézanne (1897)Exploitation
Mountains and Sea — Helen Frankenthaler (1952)Exploitation
Number 1A, 1948 — Jackson Pollock (1948)Exploitation
Ocean Park No. 67 — Richard Diebenkorn (1973)Exploitation
Olympia — Édouard Manet (1863)Exploitation
Orange, Red, Yellow — Mark Rothko (1961)Exploitation · ↑
Painting Number 2 — Franz Kline (1954)Refusal
Painting, Smoking, Eating — Philip Guston (1973)Exploitation
Portrait of Annette — Alberto Giacometti (1961)Exploitation
Street, Berlin — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1913)Exploitation
Sunflowers — Joan Mitchell (1969)Exploitation
The Birth of the World — Joan Miró (1925)Exploitation
The Calling of Saint Matthew — Caravaggio (1600)Distribution
The City — Fernand Léger (1919)Exploitation
The Dance — Henri Matisse (1910)Exploitation
The Gate — Hans Hofmann (1959)Exploitation
The Liver is the Cock's Comb — Arshile Gorky (1944)Exploitation
The School of Athens — Raphael (1511)Infrastructure
The Studio — Philip Guston (1969)Exploitation
Violin and Candlestick — Georges Braque (1910)Exploitation
Vir Heroicus Sublimis — Barnett Newman (1951)Exploitation · ↑
Water Lilies (Nymphéas) — Claude Monet (1906)Exploitation
Woman I — Willem de Kooning (1952)Exploitation

Physics (6)

Copenhagen Interpretation — Niels Bohr / Werner Heisenberg (1927)Infrastructure
Decoherence Theory — H. Dieter Zeh / Wojciech Zurek (1970)Distribution
Many-Worlds Interpretation (Everett 1957) — Hugh Everett III (1957)Refusal
Pilot Wave Theory (de Broglie-Bohm) — Louis de Broglie / David Bohm (1952)Exploitation · ↑
Quantum Computing — Richard Feynman / David Deutsch / Peter Shor (1982)Exploitation
Relational Quantum Mechanics (Rovelli) — Carlo Rovelli (1996)Refusal

Pitched Music (4)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1741)Infrastructure
Musical Offering: Crab Canon, BWV 1079 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1747)Infrastructure
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1722)Infrastructure
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1731)Infrastructure

Software/computing (1)

Conway’s Game of Life — John Horton ConwayRefusal

Tonal Music (39)

Also sprach Zarathustra — Richard Strauss (1896)Infrastructure
Appalachian Spring — Aaron Copland (1944)Infrastructure
Atmosphères — György Ligeti (1961)Refusal
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 — Frédéric Chopin (1835)Infrastructure
Boléro — Maurice Ravel (1928)Infrastructure
Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 — Ludwig van Beethoven (1823)Infrastructure
Dido's Lament (When I Am Laid in Earth) from Dido and Aeneas — Henry Purcell (1689)Infrastructure
Different Trains — Steve Reich (1988)Infrastructure
Ionisation — Edgard Varèse (1931)Refusal
Kafka Fragments — Györgi Kurtág (1986)Refusal
La Mer — Claude Debussy (1905)Distribution
Le Marteau sans Maître — Pierre Boulez (1955)Refusal
Ludus Tonalis — Paul Hindemith (1942)Infrastructure
Mikrokosmos — Béla Bartók (1939)Infrastructure
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta — Béla Bartók (1936)Refusal
Musical Offering — Ricercar a 6, BWV 1079 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1747)Infrastructure
Musical Offering, BWV 1079 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1747)Infrastructure
November Steps — Toru Takemitsu (1967)Refusal
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1708)Infrastructure
Pelléas et Mélisande — Claude Debussy (1902)Distribution
Piano Concerto No. 2 — Sergei Rachmaninoff (1901)Infrastructure
Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1788)Infrastructure
Quartet for the End of Time — Olivier Messiaen (1941)Distribution
Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 — Anton Webern (1913)Refusal
Spiegel im Spiegel — Arvo Pärt (1978)Infrastructure
String Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No. 3 (Emperor) — Joseph Haydn (1797)Infrastructure
String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 — Ludwig van Beethoven (1826)Infrastructure
String Quartet No. 2 — Morton Feldman (1983)Refusal
String Quartet No. 4 — Béla Bartók (1928)Refusal
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 — Ludwig van Beethoven (1808)Infrastructure
Tabula Rasa — Arvo Pärt (1977)Infrastructure
Tenebrae Responsories — Carlo Gesualdo (1611)Refusal
The Unanswered Question — Charles Ives (1908)Refusal
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I — Johann Sebastian Bach (1722)Infrastructure
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima — Krzysztof Penderecki (1960)Refusal
Turangalîla-Symphonie — Olivier Messiaen (1948)Refusal
Violin Concerto — Alban Berg (1935)Refusal
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 — Felix Mendelssohn (1844)Infrastructure
Wozzeck — Alban Berg (1925)Refusal