ABSTRACT
If the claim is true that postmodernity is dead—I’m skeptical of grand narratives—its specter still haunts the question of what comes after. What haunts at least is the ambiguity of the preposition. If ‘after’ names a periodicity scheme, then despite the modernity of periodicity, our post-postmodern era remains a postmodern condition. If ‘after’ instead demarks the demise of modernity, then we are all still inhabited by the postmodern condition. Either way, we cannot easily escape postmodernity.
