On several occasions through her article, ‘Keeping You Post-ed: Space-Time Regimes, Metaphors, and Post-Apartheid’, Houssay-Holzschuch (2021) prompts us to consider suitable vocabulary for analysing ‘post’ situations. In this commentary, I pursue the notion that the ‘post’ discourse already has a specific vocabulary. Taking Houssay-Holzschuch’s lead and drawing from Massey’s conception of space-time regimes, I argue that ‘post’ is used powerfully to fasten the past to a place’s present, bounding certain geopolitical discourses to people and places and overshadowing experiential memories of place. This powerful lexicographic move is shrouded by cruelly optimistic rhetoric that otherwise links ‘post’ with newly opened spaces of possibility, positive change, and hope.

Houssay-Holzschuch（2021 年）多次通过她的文章“让你发布：时空制度、隐喻和后种族隔离”，提示我们考虑分析“发布”情况的合适词汇。在这篇评论中，我追求的观点是“post”话语已经有一个特定的词汇。以 Houssay-Holzschuch 为首，借鉴梅西的时空体制概念，我认为“后”被有力地用于将过去与一个地方的现在联系起来，将某些地缘政治话语限制在人和地方，并掩盖地方的经验记忆。这一强大的词典编纂行动被残酷的乐观修辞所笼罩，否则将“后”与新打开的可能性、积极变化和希望的空间联系起来。