ABSTRACT
If we loosen Western thought’s grip on language, maybe nothing dies—‘death’ is just a name for a change in form (Nhat Hanh, 2016). Nothing dies, and everything changes. So, to claim that postmodernism is dead may be a Western way of coming to terms with the reality that postmodern ideas and purposes have reincarnated in relation to present times, spaces, and needs. No longer the dominant discourse, postmodernism has become one tool among many for thinking about and responding to current concerns (Doxc, 2011)—concerns that exceed our capacities for language and that engage the non-human elements from and with which we are constituted (Barad, 2007; Nhat Hanh, 2016). The flaking flesh of postmodernism has become replaced, in part, by a return to ‘nature’ without the violence of essentialism and the stale nature/culture binary.
