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Robert Lanham: Das Hipster Handbuch

 
       
     
       
     
       
   

Robert Lanham in seiner eigenen Schreibe

 
     
       
   

Robert Lanham: Porträts und Gespräche

 
     
       
   

The Hipster Handbook (2003).
(zusammen mit Bret NICELY und Jeff BECHTEL)

Anchor Books

 
   
 
 

Hipster-Definition von Lanham

"Hipster - One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat."

Woran man den Hipster erkennt

"1. You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration.
2. You frequently use the term "postmodern" (or its commonly used variation"PoMo") as an adjective, noun, and verb.
3. You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses.
4. You have refined taste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE, Quiet Riot, and Entertainment Weekly are popular ones) that helps to define you as well-rounded.
5. You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring this up in casual conversation.
6. You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurants with monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine.
7. You bought your dishes and a checkered tablecloth at a thrift shop to be kitschy, and often throw vegetarian dinner parties.
8. You have one Republican friend whom you always describe as being your "one Republican friend."
9. You enjoy complaining about gentrification even though you are responsible for it yourself.
10. Your hair looks best unwashed and you position your head on your pillow at night in a way that will really maximize your cowlicks.
11. You own records put out by Matador, DFA, Definitive Jux, Dischord, Warp, Thrill Jockey, Smells Like Records, and Drag City.
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  • Rezensionen

    • Neu:
      MARIN, Rick (2003): "The Hipster Handbook": The Good, the Bad and the Frado.
      Robert Lanham's book is an entertaining field guide to this generation's stylistic and linguistic signs and signifiers,
      in: The New York Times Book Review v. 09.02.
      • Kommentar:
        Robert LANHAM hat mit "The Hipster Handbook" das Hipstertum für die Generation Golf upgedatet.

              
         Die Grundtheorie hat bereits die Beat Generation geliefert und Diedrich DIEDERICHSEN hat in "Sexbeat" (1985) seine Version vom Hipster vorgelegt.
              
         Für die Yuppie-Generation gab es das Handbuch von Marissa PIESMAN und die Yetties wurden von Sam SIFTON katalogisiert.
              
         Jetzt also LANHAM. Jede neue Hipster-Generation benötigt ihre eigene Sprache, also heißt cool ab sofort für die LANHAM-Fangemeinde "deck". Die Krise der Männlichkeit wird von LANHAM durch den Rückgriff auf die Posen des männlichen Mannes aufgelöst. In Deutschland versucht gerade Patrick WAGNER mit Surrogat das Rockertum zu erneuern.
              
         Man darf sicher sein, dass der nächste Begriff bereits in irgendeinem Hipsterzirkel im Umlauf ist und auf seine mediale Vermarktung wartet.
 
     
   

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