"Hipster" as pejorative.

o no '77 is old? : /

thank god i've got another six weeks before i'm old.

enjoy it while you can man, this is a unending hell of not understanding wtf is up w/teens

things to do in the next six weeks: buy bieber merch, sport it ironically in a public place, kill myself so i can stay young in people's minds forever

one of the iconic moments of my Gen-X young adulthood was going to see "Reality Bites" in the theater, and I didn't laugh at the part where the editor asks poor Winona Ryder to "define irony," but I heartily guffawed at the "golden lit sex scene," and then half the rest of the people in the theater cracked up too.

also i dont think anyones out there wearing bieber gear ironically, thats a total 1990s approach

― lag∞n, Sunday, November 18, 2012 8:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh the only person I know irl who buys bieber stuff is a super straight laced midwestern girl who only wears crew sweaters and hoodies

Do you surround yourself with things you really like or things you like only because they are absurd?

I really wish she'd spent the entire article exploring this issue, rather than writing the millionth iteration of "why hipsters are bad for society"

acousto-optic modulators, which use glass waves, are an outmoded photonic mechanism that only awful hipster physicists use in the lab

i feel like if you take a hipster and remove irony from his appropriations, you get guy fieri.

a world without irony is a world full of donkey sauce.

I like not understanding wtf is up with teens.

That article is beyond belief.

kind of a shame that piece was locked just before ppl decided it would be hilarious to eat at an awful tourist trap in Times Square tho

the onion already covered this issue over a decade ago: http://www.theonion.com/articles/aging-genxer-doesnt-find-bad-movies-funny-anymore,1451/

alright, maybe not covered, but it's relevant, and i remember thinking it was funny. something something gen xers and irony.

you mean this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpSo-VJTeE8

let's be ironic like the 90s only we'll do it "ironically"

― paula boradwell (crüt), Sunday, November 18, 2012 7:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ pretty much what I wanted to post. 90s was way, way more interested in looking disinterested and ironic. 2000s are way post-ironic in that people celebrate the inherent irony by scoffing at it

she also really misconstrues the difference between noticing irony and not being ironic. there are many, many ironies in the life of the elderly and disabled, and insinuating that these people never notice these ironies or celebrate them is pretty wrongheaded

2012 supposed hipsterism is pretty interested in the genuine. for every dopey fake mustache thingy I've seen, I've been places with people who are really fastidious about mustaches/beards. the people making artisan goods, while polluted by the spoon-makers and really overwrought companies, often really do make good small-batch products and are not at all ironic about it

If you're committed to something, that kind of disqualifies you as a hipster.

does it? maybe only if it's strictly pejorative

I think you're thinking of the 90s and "slackers"

Hell is Other Hipsters

there's a great but depressing John Cleese line that doesn't actually use the word "irony" iirc but basically says that when you're young you notice all these inconsistencies and incompetencies in the world, and you derive humor from it, but as you get older you start to realize that it's all inconsistent and no one has any idea what the fuck they're even doing, and then things stop being funny.

that just sounds like getting jaded to me

a slacker doesn't necessarily trade in the cultural tourism that a hipster does.
e.g. beavis & butthead are slackers, but not hipsters, because they are metal 4 life.

b&b were both very earnest, too

it is true that no one has any idea what the fuck they're even doing

why are educated people with access to a wide mainstream media audience even talking about hipsters like this still?? get fucking over it (editors should too) unless you're actually going to talk about something important too, like capitalism (its ubiquity, rebellion against, history, identity politics, whatever), as max said, or political/social engagement with community or something insightful or at least emotionally engaging, just anything that uses more than one thought, which i'd like to think this writer has but just didn't use for this.
xpost with irrationally angry thread, srsly wtf

"There's nothing worse than an aging hipster."

Christy Wampole is an assistant professor of French at Princeton University. Her research focuses primarily on 20th- and 21st-century French and Italian literature and thought.

I would like to know more about how modern French and Italian literature and thought would address this. Actually I'd pay cash money for Umberto Eco to write this article instead.

something so gross about musicians putting their PhD research topics in their bios -- it's like they're still in the mindset of applying to ivy league colleges and want to show how "well-rounded" and "accomplished in multiple fields" they are.

or they just have nothing else to say about themselves because they spend 15 hours a day on french essayistic fiction or w/e

uh i think it's just that she's an academic, not a musician (not rly)

oh shit, completely missed she is a musician!

oh good god the band's wiki page is formatted to showcase all of their academic credentials

Christy Wampole is lead vocalist for Glass Wave, a Bay Area cerebral rock band formed in 2008 by Robert Pogue Harrison and Dan Edelstein, both professors of literature at Stanford University. Glass Wave is categorized as "cerebral rock."

i dunno, this whole thing is ridiculous.
she must feel kinda guilty for being a self-important academic musician/professor/literature specialiste and so (logically therefore) she gives absurd gifts to her friends and now she is paying the piper publicly in this opiñicle post about hipsterism!?

can i forget that i read this?

Christy Wampole is lead vocalist for Glass Wave, a Bay Area cerebral rock band formed in 2008 by Robert Pogue Harrison and Dan Edelstein, both professors of literature at Stanford University. Glass Wave is categorized as "cerebral rock."

― mh, Monday, November 19, 2012 5:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually fell asleep reading this

how has no one mentioned what a bad singer she is, she is a really bad singer

I wonder how many gigs they played outside of Palo Alto.

maybe her way of singing is just too cerebral for you

i didnt THINK of that haw haw

that somebody not only had these thoughts but also decided to write then down and then publish them is just... it hurts my heart

why are educated people with access to a wide mainstream media audience even talking about hipsters like this still??

seriously i mean why wont someone pay me to write about how hipsters dont even exist anymore because they dont, so stop complaining about them

that somebody not only had these thoughts but also decided to write then down and then publish them is just... it hurts my heart
this a billion times
every single thought does not need to see the light of day.

'glass wave' she said 'my ceberal rock band, is playing a show. would you like to come'. 'no' i said.

She might be teaching college so she's seeing millenials, maybe going to stores/social places where there are hipsters, and remembering the 90s, when she had her finger on the pulse of society before grad school.

And then conflating all three because all she lives now is cerebral rock and French/Italian lit

Genre: Cerebral rock