“Hipster” “Cool”u geçti
Yazar: Aslı KURİŞ 4 August 2008
Adbusters’ın son kapak konusu “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization”. Yazı günümüz “hipster”ının tanımını ve kritiğini yapıyor. (Günümüz hipster’ı diyorum, çünkü hipster çok daha farklı bir altkültürü tanımlamak için 1940larda kullanılmaya başlanmış.) Üretmeden tüketen gençlik olarak tanımlanan, poşu, kemik çerçeveli gözlükler, skinny jeanler vs. giyen bu gençleri batı kültürünün sonu olarak görmek bana fazla acımasızca geldi.
Nedense her dönemde gençlerin boş şeylerle uğraştığına dair bir inanç var. Giyim kuşamlarıyla ilgili de mutlaka bir eleştiri… Sanırım “gençlik” hep genç olmayanlar için kompleks kaynağı oluyor.
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1. Boran GÜNEY | August 6th, 2008 at 12:44 am
once ben de seninle ayni fikirdeydim, ama alttaki bolumu okuyunca biraz daha yazarin anlattigini icsellestirebildim, sanirim cok onemli bi tespit var burda:
“What they may or may not know is that “cool-hunters” will also be skulking the same sites, taking note of how they dress and what they consume. These marketers and party-promoters get paid to co-opt youth culture and then re-sell it back at a profit. In the end, hipsters are sold what they think they invent and are spoon-fed their pre-packaged cultural livelihood.
Hipsterdom is the first “counterculture” to be born under the advertising industry’s microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations. Less a subculture, the hipster is a consumer group – using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion. But the moment a trend, band, sound, style or feeling gains too much exposure, it is suddenly looked upon with disdain. Hipsters cannot afford to maintain any cultural loyalties or affiliations for fear they will lose relevance.”
2. Boran GÜNEY | August 6th, 2008 at 12:57 am
tabii alttaki yorumlar da harika:
[...]It never ceases to amaze me how everyone of my generation (I assume you’re an old fart like me) loves to rag on the next one, even though we didn’t do JACK SHIT. I could go on and on about their greater political engagement, their better music, their better art, their better drugs, their racial harmony, their comfort with their sexuality. And I will one day (in three weeks when it becomes hip). But seriously. What did WE do? Invent hip hop? Sure. Our whole generation does seem to rush to take credit for that.
And, finally. I’m old, fat and use a car service to get around, but if you stop and think about it, a fixed gear bike with breaks on it is kind of awesome on like three different levels. Have you ever tried to stop one of those things?[...]
demis birisi, aslinda sik sik alintiladigim, cok begendigim bi paragraf vardir, otostopcunun galaksi rehberi’nin yazari douglas adams’in:
“I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
3. nazlinski | August 7th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
yaziyi ben de birkac gun once okudum, daha once de time out ny’da why the hipster must die diye bir yazi cikmisti, biraz ugrasti hipster gencler bu konuyla son zamanlarda:
ben de bir hipster haiku’su yazayim dalga adina:
Snowy hipsters hoop
I’m the only one who
Is not in a band
bir tane daha:
I know Atari
She knows only Nintendo
Generation gap
4. Onur AYNAGÖZ | August 27th, 2008 at 12:05 am
bunlar çok iyiymiş.
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