Macallan9
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To be a hipster is to exist in a negative cultural space by which your only signifiers are what can be deemed ironically cool and thus appropriated and intergrated into your personal brand. You do not engage in the creation of meanings (as other subcultures do), but rather, are a part of the dissasociation of cultural attributes from the object's original meanings and a facilitator of their transformation into a kitschy lifestyle accessory that simply signifies "cool." Hipsters, unlike other subcultures, do not create meanings. Rather, through ironic appropriation, they destroy the very authenticity that made them cool in the first place.
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Idk, "hipster" kinda varies on the region. When one person calls another a hipster though, there's usually a guaranteed set of characteristics. 1, hipster is thin(ner). 2, into (possibly misguided) style. 3, likely a narcissist to some degree, from a casual fan of myspace self-portraiture to, y'know, the raving pathological narcissists, like those girls who stab others in the back and climb the social ladder with religious fervor.
If you opened this thread for more than 2 seconds you are a hipster.
If you like Helvetica and vintage photo effects, then you are a hipster.
Aren't authenticity and irony opposites? I thought you can only achieve authenticity through sincerity (e.i. wearing an item of clothing for its intended purpose).
Do you mean Bourdieu or Badiou (both excellent but quite distinct thinkers).
"hipsters" are just nerds lthat apply their knowledge to their lifestyle (food, fashion, social) opposed to nerds to those to apply their knowledge to work, sports, video games, comic books etc. i don't think it's much more complicated than that