postsocial

Adjective

postsocial (not comparable)

1. Occurring 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. Of 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. Describing a form of sociality mediated by non-human objects, digital networks, or technology, rather than direct human-to-human interaction.
   • 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...2024, Želimir Žilnik, Past: An Introduction To The Problem