Editing Postmodernism (section)

====Generalization====
Although postmodern criticism and thought drew on philosophical ideas from early on, "postmodernism" was only introduced to the expressly philosophical lexicon by [[Jean-François Lyotard]] in his 1979{{efn|English translation, 1984.}} ''[[The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge]]''. This work served as a catalyst for many of the subsequent intellectual debates around the term.{{sfn|Aylesworth|2015|loc=Introduction & §2}}{{sfn|Buchanan|2018}}

By the 1990s, postmodernism had become increasingly identified with critical and philosophical discourse directly about postmodernity or the postmodern idiom itself.{{sfn|Connor|2004|p=4}} No longer centered on any particular art or even the arts in general, it instead turned to address the more general problems posed to society in general by a new proliferation of cultures and forms.{{sfn|Connor|2004|p=12}} It is during this period that it also came to be associated with [[postcolonialism]] and [[identity politics]].{{sfn|Connor|2004|p=5}}

Around this time, postmodernism also began to be conceived in popular culture as a general "philosophical disposition" associated with a loose sort of [[relativism]]. In this sense, the term also started to appear as a "casual term of abuse" in non-academic contexts.{{sfn|Connor|2004|p=5}} Others identified it as an aesthetic "lifestyle" of eclecticism and playful self-irony.{{sfn|Brooker|2003|p=203}}