Links tagged with “hipsters”
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Dissent Magazine - Online Features - The White Negro (Fall, 1957) -
Norman Mailer’s essay on the hipster. Which I’ve only read through Adam Curtis, so I should probably read the actual thing.
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The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com
This is good - this generation’s “thing” is starting small businesses. “Our culture hero is not the artist or reformer, not the saint or scientist, but the entrepreneur.” Although it falls apart a bit when suggesting hipsters have only been around for 15 years. (via Waxy)
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White Negro for Mayor
Adam Curtis on Normal Mailer and the rise of hipsters. “Today it is possible to argue that we have all become gay white negroes.”
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Potlatch: An open letter to the hipster
Will Davies calling on hipsters to be more politically aware (to very crudely summarise). Reminds me a bit of Adam Curtis at The Story talking about how the stories we tell online ignore the political structure of the net. (via Tom Taylor)
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YouTube - Being a Dickhead’s Cool
It’s like Nathan Barley - The Video, ten years on. Very good.