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By: saulgoodman

I still maintain it's not "excessive irony" that's the problem, but something deeper and more psychologically complex that the author conflates with "excessive irony" in a way that does a disservice to...

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By: antonymous

I don't have a ton to add to the conversation (I missed this post on the blue but have read the articles and reactions elsewhere), and maybe it's my own poorly-chosen information diet, but it seems...

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By: Rustic Etruscan

flex, I liked that article much more than the one linked in the OP. Blake's dictum against generalizations still holds. Still, my eyes narrowed as I read it. Defining the ethos of an era, particularly...

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By: flex

The Atlantic - Sincerity, Not Irony, Is Our Age's Ethos: "A recent hipster-hating New York Times column got this pop-cultural moment exactly backwards."It's obviously difficult—and arguably...

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By: philip-random

The fix is an awareness of the unspoken, sensual, wordless aspect of ourselves, the part that can't ever be fully expressed and which is therefore vitally important to try expressing. You can't just...

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By: Rory Marinich

In fact, if anything I think hipster-ness is a REACTION to that central problem, not the problem itself.

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By: Rory Marinich

Despite my critique of the FPP article, I agree there's a problem. And the retro-obsession/relative absence of real cultural innovation is part of it. The disassociation and aloofness we often seem to...

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By: saulgoodman

Despite my critique of the FPP article, I agree there's a problem. And the retro-obsession/relative absence of real cultural innovation is part of it. The disassociation and aloofness we often seem to...

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By: The Whelk

The concept of retro mania running in collector's weekly is very delicious since collector culture and retro fetishes ruining everything is a main fixture if The Man In The High Castle.

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By: The Card Cheat

Retromania's a great book.

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By: ob1quixote

Is Our Retro Obsession Ruining Everything?, Lisa Hix, Collectors Weekly, 19 November 2012 In his seventh book "Retromania," British-born rock critic and music memorabilia collector Simon Reynolds...

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By: klangklangston

Man, I wish I knew enough German to know the slang term for the Bohemians in Weimar Germany, as a lot of the same criticisms got leveled at them.

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By: goodnewsfortheinsane

I have always liked this rundown of the state of irony by Zoe Williams in the Guardian.

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By: raysmj

Card Cheat: Hahaha. Maybe it depends on the week or time of day he's asked about things. (I suppose I just looked at it, and the previous thing I saw with Richard Burton or whoever--could've sworn it,...

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By: naoko

I see the same as true of the bohemians of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. And probably the 1920s. They were regarded as people who had other choices and opportunities, and chose to live as if they were poor....

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By: The Card Cheat

> The Card Cheat: Johnny Lyndon is not saying he was rebelling against those guys, he's saying he was part of a music hall tradition of sorts there. He's being sincere! (He was rebelling against art...

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By: Miko

where earlier bohemians were frequently reviled for living in poverty, the spectre of today's hipster is disliked for seeming to pretend to poverty I see the same as true of the bohemians of the 50s,...

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By: raysmj

The Card Cheat: Johnny Lyndon is not saying he was rebelling against those guys, he's saying he was part of a music hall tradition of sorts there. He's being sincere! (He was rebelling against art...

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By: octobersurprise

Of course there is such a thing as a hipster. Hipsters affect whatever the fad is at the time. But which fad? Twenty years ago, were you a hipster because you wore flannel and listened to Soundgarden...

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By: mrgrimm

Wizard People, Dear Reader ... ironic? If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

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