Proliferations of discourses that are decidedly ‘post-’ inundate
artistic and intellectual life today: a post-Fordist mode of
production gives way to post-politics and post-capitalism, which is
accompanied by a post-media, post-digital, post-internet landscape
populated by post-identitarian post- humans that are post-feminist,
post-race, and post-queer. It is an era that, easily enough, has
been summed up as post-contemporary, and not so long ago,
postmodern. Such a postal deluge encourages the question: what is
this prefix that stretches across the world to account for myriad
global conditions? If ‘post-’ is commonly used to signal an ‘after’,
then what does its excessive use convey about the historical
present? Are we ‘after’ everything, supplanted in endless, elusive
passings, a never-ending fractal vortex, where post-isms spin past
all horizons to infinity?