living in a post-apocalyptic world morbid and horrid
started an etsy shop with some beautiful antiques i picked up the other day.
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get em.
i am ontotheologically free!
i’ve finally completed this essay that i’ve been working on for quite a while. i think i could use a two or three week break from heidegger now.
gem of snippet from the winnipeg free press.
“Texas Gov. Rick Perry, meantime, enjoyed one of his best debate performances — admittedly a low bar”
It’s things like this that placate and assure me that I’m not actually a hipster just because l play around with a 35mm camera and wear a kefiyah from time to time. Because I know more than one person that dresses like this. In fact, I’ve seen a friend wear this exact outfit. Chewie did it first though, which makes him the real hipster.
Does anyone know what ‘hipster’ even means?And to those of you who wear these kinds of socks (you know who you are)… I’m secretly jealous I can’t pull them off.
yes. hipster is one of the first cultural identities born of the postmodern world. aka a true child of the internet and it so far has shown us what we’re expecting to see at “the end of culture,” but the phrase is heavily misleading. far from being the end of culture the hipster is offering a deconstructive renewal to all times past in an effort to create a sustainable future not only for the environment but in all facets of life, and especially the culture industry. i’m pretty sure i want to do some cultural theory or critical theory or grammatology work with the hipster for my sip. i mean seriously it’s the first time that a negative other has become a cultural stereotype. the hipster is the sign of a healthy youth culture against pop culture and its negative stereotypes come more from commercial angst rather than any real reasons or concerns. what could be one of the most interesting parts is the rallying against effect that it creates, or look at that hipster effect. in a sense this nullification becomes necessary for two reasons. the first to renew one’s own connection to the past or their own authenticity by diminishing an other and then to offer a “real” other who is a hipster to counter the claim that nobody would decide themselves a hipster even though it doesn’t actually do that. it only offers a broken metaphor that people take as working because they want it to work. now, i understand that there are actual problems with people who decide to act like they like something or whatever without knowing anything about it but i’d just rather consider them foolish, they don’t deserve a title of such nuance as hipster. it’s always been a good point isi about what hipster even means. it’s difficult. i’m working on it, and i think you really see a shift to “hipster” when postmodernism begins to happen but honestly i’m starting to wonder that if postmodernism didn’t really happen until the postmodern god, worldwide-web, was born. my current working definition is “the hipster is a child of internet, who’s styles and or tastes reflect the ability not only to reproach any era but to do so without concern to the indexed meanings of that time. the hipster culturally deconstructs the past to afford themselves a present, they see in the web the possibility for culture outside commercialisation and domination. however, at the same time the hipster itself is an other, a nobody that lays the ground for the claim that one isn’t a hipster, which serves the purpose of letting them continue or go even further in their rejection of commercial culture. the hipster is the mirror of true freedom in everything it touches because it is the mirror of a new social environment, one in juxtaposition to the rest of the world.” i’m starting to wonder if the problems with hipsters are just problems with people being stupid.
i have the best girlfriend ever.
