I am hip (= I know what’s in), but I am not a hyper-consumer by any stretch (nor do I want to be). What does that make me?
So then the very pejorative element of "hipster" falls away as a mere irrelevant husk.
I wouldn't underestimate how mainstream big business pop can and will incorporate any underground trend once it's big enough.
If nothing else marketing and economics will see to that.
slight OT, but the pejorative element to hipsterdom has a long history in the US. It's definitely been used in anti-Nazi and anti-Commie propaganda campaigns.
slight OT, but the pejorative element to hipsterdom has a long history in the US. It's definitely been used in anti-Nazi and anti-Commie propaganda campaigns.
wasn't that more in terms of a black/avantgarde culture aware beatnick type identity tho?
cool blog, shudder
This is true, but only within certain bounds, ie exactly as you say that the underground trend is large enough. These are not in any sense large enough to facilitate anything even resembling a mainstream takeover.
Hm. I can see a way to make that distinction between the omnivorous type and the burrower. But aren't both different methods of achieving the same end--carving out individual identity through indentification with fetish objects, commodity fetishes?
I think being a productive force is the only way to stem the tidal wave that is consumption. (like when Deleuze talks about desiring machines in productive mode)
Maybe, but there were points where people thought that about hip-hop, electro, house, jungle, and even indie rock.
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