
POSTNESS
The “post” of posthumanism implies something has happened or will happen. Or something has become. Braidotti places posthumanism as the historic moment that marks the end of the oppositional relationship of humanism and anti-humanism, pivoting towards new alternatives. 1 If Humanism champions human singularity and potential, Anti-Humanism is a rejection of the concept of “nature” as fabricated. Neither is perfect, but elements from both create avenues towards postness. Braidotti remarks that “Posthuman subjectivity expresses an embodied and embedded and hence partial form of accountability, based on a strong sense of collectivity, relationality, and hence community building. (Her) position is in favor of complexity and promotes radical posthuman subjectivity, resting on the ethics of becoming.” 2 The Post- references an after- becoming. It is not necessarily a specific date, or some future time, but is based on an after-becoming. The period it will take place in is the Anthropocene. The time can be now.
1 Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Polity Press, 2013, 37
2 Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Polity Press, 2013, 49