[lbo-talk] what are hipsters?

[Homo Indeterminatus]

On Jun 15, 2010, at 7:30 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> 
>>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> There is
>>>> a write-up here, implying that the main idea was that the hipster
>>>> is
>>>> always someone else:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/the-death-of-the-hipster-panel/
>> 
>> But isn't the real, authentic, fully self-presencing hipster the one
>> who *knows* the hipster is always someone else?
> 
> since it's important to have a contest about who is least hip - the
> one thing I did discover from my reading of facebook, etc., then of
> course, if you are authentically hip then you would want to be a
> hipster. afterall, what could be less hip than wanting to be a
> hipster?

Or, to cop a feel from Elvis Costello: What's so funny 'bout peace, love and self-negation?