Undualing
A concept from Austin Wade Smith describing the practice of reanimating lifeworlds against forces of singularization — thickening “the cast of characters which create value and sustain planetary livelihood.” Undualing is the invitation to move from the dualism at the heart of modernity (a retreat from diverse “worlding” practices to one universal world, centralized across time and space) back into a multitude of ontological regimes, each capable of recognizing different orders of entities.
“Rather than a world co-created by a multitude of players, locations, and timelines, the dualism at the heart of modernity is a retreat from a diverse set of ‘worlding’ practices to one universal world. Undualing is the invitation to thicken the cast of characters which create value and sustain planetary livelihood. It is the practice of reanimating lifeworlds against forces of singularization. It resists the collapsing of many to the few.”
In the Undercapital frame, undualing offers a more legible approach to the virtual: nondual experiences have ethical consequence not just in their immanent value but in their role as tunnels or wormholes to alternative regimes of reciprocity — passages between different ontological frameworks adequate to different orders of beings. The virtual, in this light, is the vehicle for traversing between these lenses while maintaining enough mutual coherence to remain grounded and socially functional.
Smith’s concept “feral computing” — applied technological undualing — is proposed as one of three “vagabond technologies” for realizing the undercapital project in practice.