A movement in the 1980s where many highly theoretical topics were developed based on scholarly works written for larger audiences and based on a wide range of critical theories.
Main influences included the works of Jean Baurillard, Jean Francois Lyotard, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida.
The concepts of postmodernism, psychoanalytic theory, and neo-marxism became common (even fashionable) as a result of this movement.