"The dance floor at a hipster party looks like it
should be surrounded by quotation marks."
<http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html>Adbusters
skewers the hipster scene in a wildly
self-important essay that ends, "The hipster
represents the end of Western civilization a
culture so detached and disconnected that it has
stopped giving birth to anything new." The
article is enjoyable to read, since of course
it's fun to read about how trashy and pointless
hipsters are. But I have no idea how it made it past the factcheckers:
Hipsterdom is the first 'counterculture' to be
born under the advertising industry's microscope,
leaving it open to constant manipulation but also
forcing its participants to continually shift
their interests and affiliations. Less a
subculture, the hipster is a consumer group
using their capital to purchase empty
authenticity and rebellion.. But the moment a
trend, band, sound, style or feeling gains too
much exposure, it is suddenly looked upon with
disdain. Hipsters cannot afford to maintain any
cultural loyalties or affiliations for fear they will lose relevance.
Can it really be true that the folks at
<http://www.adbusters.org/>Adbusters have never
read Adorno and Horkheimer writing about the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry>culture industry?
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<http://www.monochrom.at/english/2008/08/tonight-we-mean-it-when-we-dance.htm>monochrom
at 8/02/2008 06:26:00 AM
