In spite of the most devout hopes of many cynics, the allure of postmodernism and the problems that are attendant upon this term and its cognates — postmodernity, postmodern, "postie" — is undiminished. The salon lizards of theory — to adapt Margolis's (1989) dig — are yet to move en masse to any newer, more attractive fad. Indeed, since 1984, with the publication in English of Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition: A Report ">on Knowledge (1984a), and the fullest version of Jameson's often reworked "Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism" (1984), there has been a proliferation of theorisations of postmodernity and suggestions for practice.