Hipsters, in hindsight.

luka

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"Shockwave theory understands the hipster as the reassertion of class stratification in the aftermath of the meltdown event at impact site."
 

sadmanbarty

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to translate (to the extent that i've grasped the concept). the 90's saw a cultural melting pot; true integration of race and class. to think in garage, you had lee fagan, that bloke from so solid who killed his bird and mighty mo all in the same scene. hipsterism is about recovering and reasserting a broader middle class identity.
 

luka

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It's your concept ive just nicked it. I probably made it up anyway and forgot
 

sadmanbarty

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hispterism is the acknowledgement in the futility of white identity as a creative force.

the alt right is an attempt to combat this.
 

sadmanbarty

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the success of eminem and justin timberlake in the 2000's bought some time. it led us to believe that we could become black. but we couldn't...
 

sadmanbarty

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dubstep was the point when we realised this. you could school yourself in the entire history of black music and produce a music that reflected that and all you'd get is an empty, embarrasing shell of a genre.

kode9 really though he was eminem. but he wasn't...
 

luka

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It's identity in that sense that makes its ugly reappearance the further we get from the impact site. The shells are waiting. The shells were never destroyed. Come back to the shells.
 

sadmanbarty

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hipsterism is a vacuum. the alt right it a cancer. so what's the hope in middle class cultural identity?

in this sense thirdform is the saviour of the white man. he ruthlessly advances a white aesthetic. he shows what it has to offer.
 

luka

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So barty how are you explaining the hypes, Danny Weeds, dem 2s etc millions of them. Geniuses. Not kode 9s at all. You have to explain that
 

sadmanbarty

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luke's brand of psychedelia is actually another option. another means to assert middle class identity that is neither redundant nor poisonous. a grand aesthetic vision that is uniquely and usefully middle class.
 

sadmanbarty

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So barty how are you explaining the hypes, Danny Weeds, dem 2s etc millions of them. Geniuses. Not kode 9s at all. You have to explain that

actually they were all results of this integration that's now faded. white identity wasn't neccisary when they were around. they were the eminems and timberlakes of the uk.
 

luka

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I think that what you had at acid house ground zero was a psychedelia and that is why people could escape the shells and the encrustations of social identity.
 

luka

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actually they were all results of this integration that's now faded. white identity wasn't neccisary when they were around. they were the eminems and timberlakes of the uk.

The integration of fused identity at impact site. In the heat of that collision. That's the utopia we've lost sight of.
 
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