Arthur I thought you were my archetype.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 9:56 AM To: [email protected]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] How to Live Without Irony - NYTimes.com NY Times Nov 17, 2012 If irony is the ethos of our age - and it is - then the hipster is our archetype of ironic living. The hipster haunts every city street and university town. Manifesting a nostalgia for times he never lived himself, this contemporary urban harlequin appropriates outmoded fashions (the mustache, the tiny shorts), mechanisms (fixed-gear bicycles, portable record players) and hobbies (home brewing, playing trombone). He harvests awkwardness and self-consciousness. Before he makes any choice, he has proceeded through several stages of self-scrutiny. The hipster is a scholar of social forms, a student of cool. He studies relentlessly, foraging for what has yet to be found by the mainstream. He is a walking citation; his clothes refer to much more than themselves. He tries to negotiate the age-old problem of individuality, not with concepts, but with material things. More...... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/?n l=todaysheadlines <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/? nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121118> &emc=edit_th_20121118 http://tinyurl.com/bezlm9e
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