Definition
Post Post-Human
/ˈpoʊst poʊst-hjumən/



“With the concept of the real disintegrating through an acceptance of the multiplicity of reality models and the embrace of artificiality, Realism as it was once known was no longer possible.”[⇲] - Jeffery Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch's 1992 exhibition  ‘Post-Human’⇲ mused on the aesthetic pluralism of the late century, as flesh fused with technology, and body modification became mainstream. Revisited in 2024⇲, Deitch posits that technology has collapsed the real into the hyperreal, in which humanity transcends its flesh boundaries through technology and bioengineering. 

“There simply isn’t any way the revival of a past exhibition—no matter how star-studded or wide-ranging—can truly capture what the posthuman means to us now. In this sense, we are, forgive me, post-posthuman, the concept played to its end in light of new ideas around subjectivity and embodiment.”[⇲] - Zoe Greenwald

Deitch’s exhibition did not hold the same weight 30 years later. Post-Internet generations were born incapable of deciding to copulate with the machine or not, they were born both as the flesh and the ghost in the shell, thus the creation of the 
post-posthuman. There was a failure to consummate the web and the socialist struggle. Our available technology is fractioned by large corporate monopolies, thus denying any liberating possibility. Escapism is monetized and subsidized, there will be no transformation of the self for free.

Capture of the Jeffery Deitch Post-Human exhibition at Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, in Rivoli/Turin.