postmechanical en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.? Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor. Latin mēchanicusder. Old French mecaniquebor. Middle English mechanic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English mechanical English mechanical English postmechanical From post- + mechanical.
Meanings
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Occurring after a mechanical process has completed.
Industrial capitalism, in its hard metallic form, is melted away from the hard core of global capitalism […] from human labor time to postmechanical production processes where human labor is reduced to assemblage work, the wastage of which forms the assemblages of human posturban communities.
2015, Charles C. Lemert, Structural Lie: Small Clues to Global Things, page 16:Primary sludge is generated by postmechanical treatment after the primary stage, whereas waste-activated sludge is generated via biological treatment by transformation of soluble contamination (mainly C, N, and P) into particulate biomass.
2019, Jose Antonio Olivares, Daniel Puyol, Juan Antonio Melero, Wastewater Treatment Residues as Resources for Biorefinery Products and Biofuels, page 27:Postmechanical operations include: (1) removal of excess weld metal, slag, and weld spatter, (2) rough or finish machining to dimensional requirements of the weldment, and (3) metal conditioning processes such as peening or roll planishing to reduce cracking tendencies physically and to increase weld bead strength.
1989, William Winchell, Realistic Cost Estimating for Manufacturing, page 121:
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Occurring after the end of the machine age.
Is the postmodern world. postmechanical? If the age of the machine include computers and the entire digital world, just watch postmoderns on their cell phones.
2005, D. A. Carson, Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church:By 1763, he was actively wrestling with exactly the questions that we have seen repeatedly put on the table in the postmechanical age.
2022, Jonathan Sheehan, Dror Wahrman, Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century, page 299:As Barglow noted in the beginning of this section, how one imagines the human position in the new postmechanical age recalls performance anixeties, penetration metaphors, and phobias of the womb.
1997, Sue-Ellen Case, The Domain-Matrix, page 97: