Comments on: Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization http://leesean.net/2008/07/31/hipster-the-dead-end-of-western-civilization/ The Life of an Artist-Activist-Musician-Nerd Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charles Loughhead http://leesean.net/2008/07/31/hipster-the-dead-end-of-western-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-42364 Charles Loughhead Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:08:46 +0000 http://leesean.net/?p=975#comment-42364 Your tone wasn't lost on me. I offer my comment only as a reminder that hipsters and non-hipsters alike cannot escape ideology. I agree with your suggestion that hipsterism is but another instantiation of Late Capitalism. Scratch a hipster, and you'll find a commodity fetishist of an especially laughable, weak-minded, weasely sort. Your tone wasn’t lost on me. I offer my comment only as a reminder that hipsters and non-hipsters alike cannot escape ideology.

I agree with your suggestion that hipsterism is but another instantiation of Late Capitalism. Scratch a hipster, and you’ll find a commodity fetishist of an especially laughable, weak-minded, weasely sort.

]]> By: leesean http://leesean.net/2008/07/31/hipster-the-dead-end-of-western-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-42360 leesean Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:20:01 +0000 http://leesean.net/?p=975#comment-42360 But you see, that declaration was pronounced between invisible literary "air quotes." Hence the problem with hipsterism. But you see, that declaration was pronounced between invisible literary “air quotes.” Hence the problem with hipsterism.

]]> By: Charles Loughhead http://leesean.net/2008/07/31/hipster-the-dead-end-of-western-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-42359 Charles Loughhead Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:16:59 +0000 http://leesean.net/?p=975#comment-42359 Ideology cannot, by definition, be dead. See Althusser: "Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence." Ideology cannot, by definition, be dead. See Althusser: “Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.”

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