postsocial

alternative post-social

1. not comparableOccurring after a specific social event or gathering.

   Those who are attractive may receive several invitations to private, postsocial parties.

   1978, Nick Stinnett, The Family and Alternate Life Styles

2. not comparablehuman sciencesOf or relating to a state of being, or a period of history, that follows the breakdown or transcendence of traditional social structures.

   First, the only alternative to life in society was life—or more probably death—in the jungle. There was no possibility of a postsocial existence, no hope of a leap into a utopian paradise.

   1970, Willson Havelock Coates, The Ordeal of Liberal Humanism: an Intellectual History of Western Europe since the French Revolution

3. not comparableengineeringDescribing a form of sociality mediated by non-human objects, digital networks, or technology, rather than direct human-to-human interaction.

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   To live “after society” does not mean we are finally rid of society, but rather that our sociality has been supplemented by objects. In other words, we are still social beings, but now we share our sociality with objects. […] Objectualization of the post-social conditions of contemporary life is the other side of the simultaneous experience of individuation. […] Individuation in this sense is a symptom of the postsocial turn. It does not happen within society but is itself just a moment in society’s dissolution.

   2024, Želimir Žilnik, Past: An Introduction To The Problem