CONSTELLATIONS
Experimental encounters in poetry, images and philosophy. Enter through a question, follow a relation, and allow the works to remain distinct.
I · Warburg · Pound · Yang Lian
Eight questions and eight journeys move among Yang Lian’s Yi, Ezra Pound’s Cantos and Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas. Images, forms and ideas illuminate one another without being forced into a single argument.
LISTEN — The Complete Atlas · AI-generated audio discussion →
II · What a Form Cannot Hold
Eight journeys through Yang Lian’s poetry ask what form reveals—and what it cannot hold. Follow circles, thresholds, bodies and fragments across a field of poetic encounters.
LISTEN — The Spatial Poetry of Yang Lian · AI-generated audio discussion →
III · The Cut and the Whole
The Cut and the Whole brings Jan-Peter Schuring’s relational ontology into encounter with Karen Barad, Zhuangzi and other voices. Eleven journeys ask how relations, boundaries and acts of looking shape a world. Without discussing Yang Lian directly, it opens a neighbouring field of questions that can sharpen our attention to the relational spaces his poetry creates.
LISTEN — Meeting the Universe Halfway · AI-generated audio discussion →
READ — The Width of the Knife →
A companion essay on perception, relation and the cuts that shape a world, bringing Karen Barad and relational ontology into conversation with Zhuangzi and other voices.
IV · The One and the Nothing
Sixty-four rooms bring Yang Lian’s Yi into encounter with the Book of Changes and Leibniz’s binary imagination. Follow air, earth, water and fire, choose a hexagram, or let a casting of coins open a path. Each room invites a crossing between poetic language and the patterns through which we seek to read a world.
LISTEN — How Leibniz Misread the I Ching · AI-generated audio discussion →
READ — The One That Is Not Used →
A companion essay tracing the difference between Leibniz’s zero and the fertile absences of Yang Lian’s Yi, through the sixty-four figures of the Book of Changes.