I saw this picture on the internet, and it reminded me of what the "What Was the Hipster" article was discussing, how hipsterdom "represents a style culture which will only be a longing--decade or half-decade by decade or half-decade, therefore micro-generation by microgeneration", and the style of hipsterdom is "whatever Mommy and Daddy wore because they were real adults when you were tiny." I think this picture pretty accurately represents that, because our generation grew up in the late 80s/early 90s, and that portrayal of this style was what we grew up seeing in school, on TV, etc. during that time.
Picture this guy on the streets of Williamsburg: he and his probably-not-prescription glasses fit right in.
And of course, picture him on the cast of a 90s sitcom, and he'll fit in there too.
How much of being a hipster is defined by style? And is that style just recycled from previous generations?
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DL - Whose post is this by the way? No name listed.
The quote from the n+1 piece is telling of the author's anxiety. It says, in a nutshell, what if our interests and our concerns were purely narcissistic? If the search for an origin, or any origin, was limited by a narrow view of what constitutes our beginnings? How would global solidarities be possible? Or cross-class identifications for that matter? Thus every venture is defined by nostalgia that replaces the real present with the aestheticisation of the present via the styles of the past. Perhaps why the hipstamatic is currently so popular?
Oops! I was just looking back through our blog and realized I never put my name on this!
- Rebecca Willett
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