With contributions from Nanni Balestrini, Hans Belting, Arianna Borrelli, Francesca Bray, Luciano Canfora, Chen (Joseph) Cheng-Yih, Eckhard Fürlus, Claus-Peter Haase, Yasmin Haskell, Daniel Irrgang, Clemens Jahn, David Link, Mara Mills, Nils Röller, Otto E. Rössler, George Saliba, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Amnon Shiloah, Amador Vega Esquerra, Peter Weibel, Xu Fei, and Siegfried Zielinski, research on variantology attempts to react naively to the culture of clustering, modularization, and programmatic bundling that occurs in many places. The concept is understood as a neologism that has the advantage of not being suitable for standardization purposes. Obviously, it contains a spread that we find in other semantic manifestations of the 'heterology' of Georges Bataille or the 'heterotopias' of Mich.