Diffractive non-anthropocentric communication practices in the post abnormal.

The familiar definition of Communication is "communis", meaning common (Rogers and Shoemaker 1971); "sadharanikaran" identifying common ground/commonality through Dhvani, i.e. meaning formation (Kapadia-Kundu 2015; Kamei and Bagga-Gupta 2021). This definition, however in the post pandemic/post abnormal, requires discussions on what "agent", "network" and "environment" are in the role of communication and media engagement at macro and micro scale. Consequently, the research paper will suggest a set of questions that should prob the definition further in post abnormal communication practices. Taking a Cartesian view of nature with non-anthropocentric approaches, the paper looks at rethinking of epistemological and subject-object models and the mono/multi-dimensional, anthropocentrically-oriented conception of communication practices. As a methodology the research maps the offline and online multimedia communication practices of digital natives enrolled in a graduate program during the COVID -19 pandemic. The paper discusses the possible characteristics of communication in the posthumanism context across the continuum of time and space incorporating the transmedia platforms of the digital age. The posthumanist perspective confronts us with the cognition of entwinement of the non-human and human actors as tools of representation accounted as "weird" (Morton 2015), "chthonic" (Harway 2016), "vibrant" (Bennett 2009). This perspective can be used as an analysing tool in re-examining the diffractive (post) abnormal communication practices and processes which becomes ex-centric, nomadic, personal as well as communal, singular and different. The paper proposes a critical reflection on the ontology with insights on theoretical and empirical approaches to allow a better understanding of post abnormal communication practices with the impact of digital technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]