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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.

By: She

She — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:08:20 +0000

“Hip” has an etymology (heroin user) and an accepted academic definition (lofty bourgeois intellection meets strict rejection of bourgeois aesthetics; e.g., we cite Vilem Flusser in saying terribly clever things about pimps). However, since bourgeois aesthetics rejects ethical content in favor of form anyway and the bourgeoisie have been reading with pleasure about pimps for the last 500 years, as middle-class people are sadly not aware, naively believing the bourgeoisie somehow resembles their parents, hipsterism fails as a social-climbing strategy and becomes ludicrous. FYI.

By: Leave the Hipster Alone « Tape Noise Diary

Leave the Hipster Alone « Tape Noise Diary — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:50:08 +0000

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