The nuances of posthumanism

The question about what comes after postmodernism illustrates historicity, the imaginary of chronology, a flawed linear narrative of progression and development. There is a diachronical vogue that frames epoch with aesthetic style. Yet all the while social and cultural realities reflect multiplicities and ambiguities that hold and suspend binaries alongside one another. Western philosophical theory has been marked by an androcentric focus on the male human and the associated networks of relations that construct the primacy of his experiences. This androcentrism is enacted in our age of advanced capitalism, where the resources of the world are harnessed in service to human elites and progression narratives are constructed to perpetuate power. Lurking in the shadow of modernism, the postmodern rejection of essentialism, structuralism and metanarratives simultaneously reifies them.