The article offers a critical framework of postmodernism and posthumanism in relationship with contemporary performance. Referring on works of Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Cary Wolfe, I will first put into historical perspective the genesis of these concepts and examine how they rethink the relations between new technologies and human being. Secondly, I will analyze the performance The Rite of Spring (Paris, 2015) of Romeo Castellucci in order to uphold the following assumption: on aesthetic level, this scenic creation puts into practice the theories related to dualism postmodernism/posthumanism.