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postinternet en · NOUN

Etymology

From post- + internet. As specific term to describe artistic activity from mid-2000s, later popularized by Gene McHugh in a blog and book of the same name.

Meanings

1. (attributive, often, uncountable) Society and modes of interaction following the widespread adoption of the internet, especially in arts and criticism.
   • The term that’s being used is Post-Internet Art — not “post” in the sense that the internet is over, but that it’s ubiquitous. In the post-internet era, the internet is simply assumed. 2016 October 21, Frank Rose, “The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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