26 August 2010

More hipster crit

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“While the 1950s hipster of the Beat Generation was represented as a countercultural iconoclast who defied consumerist norms of middle class culture, the millennial hipster increasingly came to be represented as an über-consumer of trends and as a new, and rather gullible, target market who consumes cool, rather than creating it.”

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