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A poetics of variation names '''variation as a principle of both inquiry and composition'''. Poetics brings the procedures of making and the organization of the resulting work into the same frame. | |||
Variation then operates in two connected ways: | |||
* In the method: reading, describing, modeling, programming, and staging become ways of approaching the source material differently. Each operation changes what can be encountered and what questions become possible. | |||
* In the work: those differences acquire form: as divergent descriptions, beings, relations, mechanics, or worlds. The work can sustain several possibilities and let their differences matter. | |||
The crucial point is that variation produces knowledge through the differences it makes. | |||
Variation proposes a particular continuation of what has been received. The resulting work gives that continuation a form that can itself be encountered, questioned, and varied. | |||