patternfaring is prefigurative academic writing perturbing the linearity, argumentativeness, and foreclosure that bind the academic genre to dualisms. It leans on the affordances of the hypertextual and computational to practice [1] a multidimensional trail of co-authorship extending acknowledgements and citations, [2] nonhierarchical organizational and navigational pathways, and [3] shifting words that pull back language’s static and objective veneer.

Dualisms is an entrenched way of understanding and being in the world based on exaggerated separations which create, maintain, and justify harm and otherness. It manifests and reifies itself along interlocking binaries that relate to reason and the human on a superior end, and forms of nature on an inferior one. It denigrates the particular and privileges the universal, eschews animality for rationality, and exceptionalizes a narrowly-defined agentic human subject over nature, which it casts as inert, non-human objects.

patternfaring draws from a multifarious host of collaborators to destabilize dualisms, from posthumanists like Donna Haraway and Karan Barad, feminists including Val Plumwood and Virginia Woolf, Daoists such as Zhuang Zi and Ursula Le Guin, to innumerable creative technologists, literary writers, environmentalists, activists, teachers and friends.