Thursday, August 7, 2008

Never counter-culture enough

Well, this article I instantly find ironic as it is exactly what The Rebel Sell criticizes Adbusters for being (is this magazine--and that book--known outside Canada?). But anyway, interesting reading---inspired by Matt, I will only proposal write and Cognition&Culture web-design when it is play, not when it is work.

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality. .

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