From Discourse to Data: Reconstructing Identity through the Postmodern and Posthuman Body

Abstract

This paper investigates the evolving concept of identity through the intersecting lenses of postmodernism and posthumanism, focusing on the body as a dynamic site of meaning-making, resistance, and transformation. It examines how postmodern discourse challenges fixed notions of selfhood, while posthuman theory expands identity beyond the human, embracing hybridity, data, and technological embodiment. Through literary and theoretical analysis, the study highlights how identities are continuously constructed, deconstructed, and reconfigured in response to shifting cultural and material conditions.