[lbo-talk] what are hipsters?

Max Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Tue Jun 15 13:12:24 PDT 2010


The truly hip are not conscious of being hip; they are conscious of not being not-hip.

thus spake Maxathustra

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Homo Indeterminatus <homoindetermin at aim.com
> wrote:


> 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?
>
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