What Was the Hipster? A Sociological Investigation

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Somewhere between irreverence and academia, there is this book. Absolutely wonderful. It may seem like a self-indulgent exercise in developing a taxonomy of hip, but it really is an intriguing and eye-opening look at the socio-cultural movement that is hipsterism. A series of essays, a transcribed discussion from a New School debate, and a series of response essays. The best: probably, the identification of hipsters as promoting an infantilized, entitled white-ness, politically nihilist, representing nothing, and circling around an almost neo-conservative fetishism of suburban whiteness from the 80s. The worst: I was horrified (HORRIFIED) to learn that my beloved Slavoj Zizek is apparently a hipster fetish object, and thus loathsome to those who don't want to be seen as hipsters (i.e. everyone). CAN THIS BE TRUE!? I refuse to accept it.