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                                                        May 14, 2012

                               http://rebelfrequencies.blogspot.com/2011/05/death-of-hipsterism.html
"The Death of Hipsterism"
May 26, 2011, on the
"Rebel Frequencies" blog.           (rebel fucking frequencies?
                                    Talk about D.O.A.)
    At the opening of this
    peculiarly self-satiric                      And no, I'm
    article, our hero is                         not name          Unlike
    lamenting no longer being                    dropping a        *some*
    able to find anything he                     band name.        people.
    cares about in "Urban
    Outfitters", and pondering
    how this means that the
    "phenomenon of the hipster"     You don't think I'm
    is dead.                        kidding, do you?
                                    Please do check that
                                    link.

                                       Clearly, this man
                                       has a different
                                       notion of "hip"         DEATH_OF_HIP
                                       in mind than I do,
                                       I submit that hip
                                       really died the
                                       moment he got there.


     "Just to be clear, I've never
     been comfortable with the glib
     hipster-bashing that plenty of
     folks from other sub-cultures
     have all-too-gleefully engaged         Neo-hipster bashing
     in over the past several               was a fad?  Damn, I've
     years. To me it seemed to smack        missed the trend-wave
     of the kind of elitism that            again.
     hipsters themselves were
     supposedly guilty of."


He quotes a "Ben Davis, co-editor of ARTINFO":

    "At any rate, if you are actually
    concerned with gentrification and
    social class, you might start by            These sound like fine
    advocating for public housing, jobs         things to do, but none
    programs, or anti-racist initiatives--"     of them would've stopped
                                                The Mission from being
                                                overwhelmed by yuppies
    " ... not ridiculing girls with             calling themselves
    bangs or guys wearing tight                 hipsters.
    pants. That is counterproductive,
    particularly if... your whole point             Any additional public
    is that an obsession with signs of              housing in San Francisco
    cultural distinction insulates                  would not be anywhere
    hipsters from real-world concerns."             near The Mission...

       This finger-pointing about
       finger-pointing is lots of
       fun, but is that really the
       whole of anyone's point?



  "Hipsterism, at least in its earliest days (the days
  before it was labeled 'hipsterism') was in essence an
  ironic jab against the myth of the American Dream,
  albeit wrapped a kind of post-modern cynicism."

     Got that?
                                                      NEO-IRONY
  "The whole aesthetic was based off
  a host of stereotypes of different
  social groups-- particularly the
  white working class.  [...]
  The trucker hats and sunglasses,
  the v-necks and porn-staches."

            I'm glad someone
            understands
            those mustaches.




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