This paper argues for “constellation research” and its core concept “constellations” as a paradigm in response to a series of potential hermeneutic, perspectival, and cognitive fallacies in the prevalent discourses on transformation and the making of future worlds at large. We claim that constellation research provides a particular heuristic to detect salient aspects of ground-breaking actual transformations. The paper’s intent is to spell out the heuristic model in its generality, thus...

The minuteness of her body and the expansiveness of her thought struck some as an odd contrast. In this still, her body crowded by the desk lamp, the large microphone, and the curtains that seem to drift toward her on the window’s breeze, they fuse in one perfect moment (Fig. 1). Mid-February 1994, Rome. She is speaking at the Virginia Woolf Center of the International Women’s House about the convergence of the practice of feminism and the insights of Michel Foucault. Critical of the communion of the “we,” she is taking feminism in another direction, a more theoretical direction, some would say.