Thursday, September 02, 2010

The Hipster Is Dead, Long Live The Hipster

An investigation of the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster, via the scholars at literary magazine, N+1:
In addition to the panel transcript, the book includes responses from critics Jennifer Baumgardner, Patrice Evans aka The Assimilated Negro, and Margo Jefferson, as well as essays on douchebags, Hasids versus hipsters, and ill-fated sneaker shop Alife Rivington
The pre-order for What Was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation is up on Amazon.

Happy to sound off in this "hipster" death knell; humbled to keep company with smart do-gooders like feminist-activist extraordinaire Jennifer Baumgardner and Pulitzer winner Margo Jefferson. Hopefully we did former hipster ideologists such as Anatole Broyard, Norman Mailer, and Robert Lanham proud.

I'll post a snippet and offer more thoughts when the mixtape book officially drops (I brought the hip hop and gold-plated four-finger rings to the party), but click here to pre-order and then maybe start ironing your smarty-pants because everyone's gonna be sizing you up while you read this on the train, in the park, post-coitus, etc.

The Hipster is dead. Long live the Hipster.

Previously/Related:
Hipster Grifter Scavenger Hunt (video)
Smells Like Negro Musk (On "Blipsters")
The Quest for "The Negro Hipster" Continues
Hipster Sensibility Matrix (w/ Tao Lin)
The Assimilator: Hipster Reality Show Casting Call

10 comments:

  1. Anonymous9/02/2010

    if that were the case, then how did hipsters make the top ten list of things new yorkers hate most? are there zombie hipsters?
    http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/08/15/news/photos_stories/new_york_annoyances090324.jpg

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  2. Yo I usually am a lil up/down on your writing (some of it's great some of it's you know--not everything for everyone), but your piece in the n+1 book is by far one of the best. I don't mean this to be a backhanded compliment. You really knocked it out of the park and impressed the hell out of me.

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  3. Thanks for the props, B Mic (<--good emcee name?)... definitely more to come in the not-so-distant future

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