A primary line of inquiry running through this project:
What use, possibly, are the Changes to us today, derived as they are from Neolithic oral mnemonic tech (poetics) that crystallized into a number of forms in writing (oracle bones, bamboo books, silk scrolls) as the Neolithic shaded into the Bronze and then Iron Ages, and that come to us in fragmentary and radically incomplete form via a welter of proliferating interpretations and commentaries and rewritings and translations?
In other words, what use is a text with obscured roots in the early Holocene in this, the Earth’s post-Holocene (Anthropocene) turn, and in a time when the hyperobject of the technosphere is materializing at an accelerating rate in a mix of accidental, incidental, and pseudo-intentional anthropogenic disruption of Earth systems — an endlessly messy terraforming — with dire implications in multiple dimensions for life as we know it?