Adbusters attacks the figure of the Hipster:
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Momus responds:
http://imomus.livejournal.com/390994.html
K-punk confesses and counter-attacks:
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/010588.html
Are hipsters in fact the scourge of contemporary civilization, who must be combated with "good" resentment in order to advance the egalitarian cause of communism, or is this issue a waste-of-time internal status-play being conducted within the confines of a self-obsessed creative class?
Personally, I lean towards the latter hypothesis, and suspect that the only people who actually give a shit about hipsters are embittered intellectuals lamely trying to pony-up their own points of distinction, and using it as a yard-car like target for taking-out their own various complexes and imaginary revenges. But I open it out to the floor.
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Momus responds:
http://imomus.livejournal.com/390994.html
K-punk confesses and counter-attacks:
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/010588.html
Are hipsters in fact the scourge of contemporary civilization, who must be combated with "good" resentment in order to advance the egalitarian cause of communism, or is this issue a waste-of-time internal status-play being conducted within the confines of a self-obsessed creative class?
Personally, I lean towards the latter hypothesis, and suspect that the only people who actually give a shit about hipsters are embittered intellectuals lamely trying to pony-up their own points of distinction, and using it as a yard-car like target for taking-out their own various complexes and imaginary revenges. But I open it out to the floor.
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