Oh no! We’re All Hipsters!

from Wikipedia:

Hipster is a slang term that first appeared in the 1940s, and was revived in the 1990s and 2000s often to describe types of young, recently-settled urbanmiddle class adults and older teenagers with interests in non-mainstream fashion and culture, particularly alternative music, indie rock, independent film, magazines such as Vice and Clash, and websites like Pitchfork Media.^[1] In some contexts, hipsters are also referred to as scenesters.^[2]

“Hipster” has been used in sometimes contradictory ways, making it difficult to precisely define “hipster culture” because it is a “mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior[s].”^[1] One commentator argues that “hipsterism fetishizes the authentic” elements of all of the “fringe movements of the postwar era—beat, hippie, punk, even grunge,” and draws on the “cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity” and “gay style”, and “regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity” and a sense of irony.^[3]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Douglas Haddow (2008-07-29). “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization”. Adbusters. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
2. ^ Tim Walker (2008-08-14). “Meet the global scenester: He’s hip. He’s cool. He’s everywhere”. The Independent. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Lorentzen, Christian (May 30–Jun 5, 2007), “Kill the hipster: Why the hipster must die: A modest proposal to save New York cool”, Time Out New York

From Adbusters:

“Hipsterdom is the first “counterculture” to be born under the advertising industry’s microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations. Less a subculture, the hipster is a consumer group – using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion. But the moment a trend, band, sound, style or feeling gains too much exposure, it is suddenly looked upon with disdain. Hipsters cannot afford to maintain any cultural loyalties or affiliations for fear they will lose relevance.”

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Interactive Fashion, Robots, Video, Music and Graphic Novels….!! DIVA Orientation ’09

Wednesday Sept 16
3:20-4:20pm
Room 247A

Come to the DIVA Orientation to learn about the new Digital + Interactive Arts Concentration, meet the instructors, and find out about the unique courses offered in spring 2010!

There will be vegan snacks!