Trying to get a better sense of how we talk about, define the hipster
via thesociologist:
“Almost by definition, real hipsters are not artists. They’re curators and critics, re-mixers and designers, the copywriters and “prosumers” who trail in the artists’ wake. At best, it seems, they’re art students: aspiring cultural savants who collect the names and slogans of past avant-gardes to hoard or brandish conspicuously, like capital.”
“What are we not talking about when we’re talking about the hipster? For example, criticizing the hipster is often a way of discussing gentrification and neighborhood change — while exempting oneself from the process. Figured as scapegoats, hipsters ruin neighborhoods by driving up rents with their parental subsidies, while the non-hipsters just … live there. Which is a totally ridiculous conceit.”
Get yours here on n+1 if you are into urban sociology (or owning a book with a pink cover).
US copyright law animated and explained in under seven minutes, by Colin Grey.
For a deeper take on copyright, creativity and culture, try this 2002 talk by Lawrence Lessig.
H/T: The Atlantic.
Matt Cutts takes the advice of “the great American philosopher,” Morgan Spurlock, and finds 30 days is about the right length of time to try changing your behavior for the better.
St. Louis explained using Venn Diagrams
If you’re not from St. Louis, this might not make much sense, but Punching Kitty does an excellent job of breaking down local culture in this series of Venn Diagrams. Glad to see a local blog step up to where I left off during my Hwy61 days in the STL blogosphere
Voters gonna vote
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