WHAT WAS THE HIPSTER?
[oldie but a goodie: Hipster Olympics!]
What Was the Hipster? An Afternoon Panel. Saturday, April 11, 2009, 2pm – 4pm. The New School University, Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street (btwn 5th & 6th aves), 2nd floor.
Mark Greif (n+1)
Jace Clayton (dj/Rupture)
Christian Lorentzen (Harper’s)
+ Special Guests TBA
This event is FREE, and promises to be fun. Audience goading heckling participation is strongly encouraged. Format is: Mark, Christian, and myself will each present a 10 minute essay, then we open things up to general debate. The whole shebang will be published in pamplet form later this year.
Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write the hipster’s history without contempt or nostalgia? If you’re openly excited about a hipster symposium, are you still allowed to attend?
I will be discussing: thick Mexican mustaches, my aversion to hipster antipathy, what lusting after a drug dealer’s 16yr old daughter in the Peruvian jungle has to say about hipsterism, and the internet.
April 10, 2009
“…and the internet.” !!!
April 10, 2009
…it’s a kind of 3-dimension map made of server farms and thin, nearly-invisible tubes, whose evil powers are both created and held in check by men with beards.
April 10, 2009
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April 11, 2009
hey! i was just at the hipster symposium…i nearly asked a question about the (pretty exciting from what i hear) local electronic music scene in lima & buenos aires. it was going to be about how the local stuff is received vs. the pitchfork-y imported things– whether both are melding together in the itunes of people in those places…? and where the hipster kids and their cumbia fit into that…? or if they are a different group of (hip) kids entirely?
it seemed the dialogue was unspooling in a wildly different direction, and i let it pass. but now i’m asking.
thanks!
—the girl who knew about rebetika
April 11, 2009
ps– as you started to talk about the misleading hipster cultural marker in spain, i had to stop myself from shouting “mullets!!!” i never appreciated them properly before hanging out in barcelona.
April 13, 2009
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