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Post-anarchism
Post-anarchism, often written postanarchism, is a current of anarchist thought that rebuilds anarchism through post-structuralist philosophy, coined by Hakim Bey in 1987 and systematized by Todd May in 1994.
Post-Angkor Cambodia
Post-Angkor Cambodia (កម្ពុជាក្រោយសម័យអង្គរ) was the Khmer kingdom lasting from Angkor's abandonment to the French protectorate of 1863, its capitals shifting to Phnom Penh, Lovek, and Udong.
Post-Boom
The Post-Boom (Spanish: posboom) is a Latin American literary movement emerging from about 1975 after the Boom, marked by direct, realist styles and prominent women writers like Isabel Allende.
Post-buckling analysis
Post-buckling analysis is a structural engineering method that traces a structure's equilibrium path beyond buckling, revealing limit loads and sensitivity to geometric imperfections in plates and shells.
Post-capitalism
Post-capitalism is a family of theories and proposals for an economy in which capitalist market relations and wage labor are progressively displaced by commons, cooperatives, and need-based distribution.
Post-cardiac arrest syndrome
Post-cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) is the multiorgan condition after return of spontaneous circulation, with four components: precipitating pathology, anoxic brain injury, myocardial dysfunction, and ischemia-reperfusion injury; managed with MAP ≥65 mm Hg, temperature control 32–37.5 °C, and delayed multimodal neuroprognostication.
Post-Civil War recession
A post-Civil War recession is any US business-cycle contraction NBER dates after 1865, above all the 1873 to 1879 downturn, the longest in recorded US history at 65 months.
Post-classical history
Post-classical history is the world-history period between classical antiquity and the early modern era, roughly 500–1450/1500 CE, marked by the spread of Islam, expanding Afro-Eurasian trade networks, and debates over Eurocentric periodization.
Post-coital tristesse
Post-coital tristesse, or postcoital dysphoria (PCD), "post-sex blues", is tearfulness, sadness, anxiety, or irritability after otherwise satisfactory consensual sex; reported in about 46% of women and 41% of men in surveys.
Post-Cold War Russia–United States summits
The face-to-face meetings between US and Russian presidents since the Soviet Union's 1991 dissolution, producing arms control treaties like New START and tracking the relationship's cooperative and confrontational phases.
Post-combustion carbon capture retrofit
A post-combustion carbon capture retrofit adds CO2 capture equipment to an existing power plant, most often amine solvents; the first was Boundary Dam in Canada in 2014.
Post-communism
Post-communism is the period after the collapse of communist regimes in 1989-1991 across Central and Eastern Europe, the former USSR, and beyond, covering democratization, market transition, EU convergence, and divergent political outcomes.
Post-concussion syndrome
Post-concussion syndrome (PCS), also called persistent post-concussive symptoms (PPCS), is a cluster of somatic, cognitive, sleep, and affective symptoms persisting after concussion; diagnosed by symptom report, with prevalence estimates from 11 to 82 percent depending on criteria.
Post-credits scene
Post-credits scene (stinger, credit cookie): a short clip placed during or after a film's end credits, predating Marvel with The Silencers (1966) and systematized by Marvel Studios from Iron Man (2008) to tease sequels and franchise continuations.
Post-creole continuum
Post-creole continuum (also creole continuum): a graded chain of speech varieties from a creole basilect through mesolects to an acrolect near the lexifier language, coined by David DeCamp in 1971 from Jamaican data and central to Caribbean sociolinguistics.
Post-disco
Post-disco is the dance-music style that followed disco's 1979 US collapse, centered on New York 1979-1983, also called Leftfield Disco or Proto-House. Traits: 100-118 BPM, drum machines, Prophet-5, stripped-down grooves; artists ESG, D-Train, Arthur Russell.
Post-earnings-announcement drift
Post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD) is the tendency of stock prices to keep moving in the direction of an earnings surprise for weeks or months, contrary to efficient market theory, characterized by Bernard and Thomas in 1989.
Post-Exercise Recovery Techniques
Post-exercise recovery techniques (cold-water immersion, massage, compression, active recovery, stretching) aim to reduce soreness, fatigue, and muscle damage markers; evidence shows small soreness benefits but no consistently superior strategy.
Post-exposure prophylaxis
Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is emergency prevention after possible infection exposure: HIV antiretrovirals within 72 hours for 28 days (87% risk reduction), rabies vaccine plus HRIG, pertussis antibiotics, and WHO-recommended doxycycline PEP for bacterial STIs.
Post-Fordism
Post-Fordism is the theorized regime of production, employment, and accumulation said to have succeeded Fordism, built on flexible production, lean methods, and outsourcing, though whether it exists remains disputed.
Post-glacial rebound
Post-glacial rebound, also called glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), is the slow rise of land depressed by ice sheets, continuing thousands of years after the ice melts.
Post-grunge
Post-grunge is a 1990s alternative rock and hard rock style from bands that followed Seattle grunge's mainstream breakthrough around 1992, imitating grunge's distorted guitars and introspection with polished, radio-friendly production; key acts include Bush, Candlebox, Creed, and Nickelback.
Post-hardcore
Post-hardcore is a rock subgenre descending from hardcore punk, arising in early-1980s Washington, DC and the US underground; known for dynamic song structures, melodic and screamed vocals, and ties to emo, screamo, and metalcore.
Post-hoc analysis
A post-hoc analysis is a comparison of treatment means chosen after the data are collected, usually to locate which group differences drive a significant ANOVA result.
Post-imperial Assyria
Post-imperial Assyria is the Assyrian heartland of northern Mesopotamia in the roughly eight and a half centuries after the Neo-Assyrian Empire fell in 609 BC.
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism, term coined by Roger Fry in 1910, covers French painting of roughly 1886 to 1905 by Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Seurat, who moved beyond Impressionist naturalism toward structure, emotion, and symbolism.
Post-industrial society
A post-industrial society, or post-industrialism, is one where most workers produce services rather than goods, a concept used influentially by sociologist Daniel Bell in 1959.
Post-irony
Post-irony is a contested cultural-theory term for practices moving past detached irony toward sincerity, treated by Lee Konstantinou's "Four Faces of Postirony," linked to metamodernism's oscillation, New Sincerity, and David Foster Wallace.
Post-it note
Post-it note: 3M's small repositionable paper note with a low-tack acrylate microsphere adhesive, invented by Spencer Silver (1968) and Art Fry (1974), launched in the US April 6, 1980; iconic canary-yellow 3-inch pad held in MoMA's collection.
Post-Keynesian economics
Post-Keynesian economics is a dissident school of macroeconomics based on Keynes's General Theory, holding that demand determines output and employment, that banks create money endogenously, and that income distribution reflects social conflict.