What is Figura? Figura is a poem composed with archives.

What does Figura compose? Above all, rhythm.

“Everything is rhythm.”

Rhythm composed out of archives.

What is an archive?

One definition: A quotation.

Figura is composed entirely of quotations.

Every quotation transforms into citation.

Quotation quotes, sheltering the past,

Citation means “to purify, to rip out of context, to destroy.”

Figura is shaped by citations.

Rhythmic citations.

Every Figura is a monad. Every Figura is connected.

They function analogically and dialectically. They fold and unfold.

Their logic is constellatory.

A constellation of archives.

Archives are the new language. New territory. New World.

The one who sings in (the key of) archives: the new poet.

(The new poet: “a poet-thinker of the event.”)

To sing the archive means to deterritorialize the archive and—

All archives contain history.

Every Figura is historical.

“A poem containing history.”

What is history?

One definition: Contemporary.

“The contemporary is the untimely.” Every Figura is untimely.

To watch a Figura as one would read a poem.

“To read what was never written.”

That is how one should approach Figura.

“—and, oh mystical philology!”

What is Figura?

“Poetry.”