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» What other people have said Minor Expletives — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:11:53 +0000

[...] my second Carl Wilson link in as many days, his post, A Spectre is Haunting Culture -The Spectre of the Hipster, from 2009 holds up well as a thinking through of the [...]

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By: Terror in the Heartland » Deep Thought

Terror in the Heartland » Deep Thought — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:06:02 +0000

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By: A Blipster, A Hipster, A Buppie, A Yuppie and A Bobo Walk Into A Bar… « Around The Sphere

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:30:31 +0000

[...] Carl Wilson, reacting to a column by Russell Smith on hipsters: I’m not particularly concerned to defend the hipster, in the sense of the class fragment vaguely gestured at there. But for any anti-hipster screed to qualify as anything but a full-on strawman-torching session providing a smokescreen for a riot of unprocessed anxieties, I’d like to find a writer able to identify, say, three so-called hipsters by name and provide some minimal grounding of generalizations in fact. Even anecdotally. If you actually ask almost anyone five or six questions, I bet they’d soon complicate the stereotype beyond recognition. (As Margaux Williamson’s Teenager Hamlet film in many ways shows.) There are no hipsters, only anti-hipsters – or at least the ratio is approximately the same as that of actually existing Satanists to anti-Satanists during the heavy-metal and Goth panics of the 1980s and 1990s. The question is what in turn the hipster allows the anti-hipster to deny, and what’s being lost in that continuing deferral. [...]

By: More on Hipsters | brianfrank.ca

More on Hipsters | brianfrank.ca — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:18:56 +0000

[...] Florida excerpted from this amazing post by Carl Wilson (he of the famous Céline Dion book that is actually cool, and whose blog feed I very promptly [...]

By: Creative Class » Blog Archive » More Hipsters - Creative Class

Creative Class » Blog Archive » More Hipsters - Creative Class — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:27:28 +0000

[...] But hipster bashing (blipsters included) is a growing sport. Music critic Carl Wilson provides perspective.[T]he hipster thing is more an outcropping of the mainstream (American Apparel division) than a [...]

By: Stark

Stark — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:08:40 +0000

Julia, good comment. Good points and well-said.

I just happened across this blog, linked in from a Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan) post. So since I read it, does that make me a hipster or anti-hipster? or one of some elite? Doubt it.

By: “There are no hipsters, only anti-hipsters.” « like a muffin or a beet

Thu, 14 May 2009 23:58:37 +0000

[...] 14, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: hipsters | by moneycitymaniac Carl Wilson offers some thoughts on Russell Smith’s recent Globe and Mail article, “The hip game of mocking the [...]

By: Matt Collins

Matt Collins — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:25:59 +0000

I just threw up in my mouth when I read that.