Come sail your ships around me

[anarchangel23]

Another collection of links in an attempt to make a dent in my backlog of browser tabs:

On the New York Times website, Mark Greif has written a Bourdieuian analysis of hipster culture and why the term is used as ab insult: The Hipster in the Mirror (subscription required

Comments

[lutramania]

Interesting. One of the academics in my department (Geoff Stahl) delivered a couple of seminars here at Vic about 6 months ago that were parallel in content to that hipster article, though he looked specifically at hipsters in Montreal. While he didn't generalize beyond the socio-political context of Montreal hipsters, iirc he arrived at a very similar argument.

I'll soon be delving deep into Distinction myself, so it's useful to see how Bourdieu is being applied at the moment.

[anarchangel23]

I've never read it myself, but it sounds like it could be worth a look for my studies on ancient societies.