Read:
A reasonable definition of Hipsterism, of which Trainspotting, though it will have no cache among hipsters themselves, is a formative work, is the assumption that there is no position which the middle class subject can not occupy, both class and identity politics have been overcome, or at least class has been subsumed into identity and identity is for the other. The middle class assumes a kind of transcendent, post-historical emptiness into which all cultures can be incorporated. This is not simply hyper-consumerism it’s also a metaphysical claim, a claim to superiority, thus while others are bounded by ethnicity, class, gender; limited, objects, with a finite set of facets and characteristics, the hipster, viewing everything as simply a lifestyle choice, views her own not just as one lifestyle among many but the lifestyle of lifestyles.
Read. That the American rightwing is loony and over the top is a given as is liberal outrage towards the messenger if not so much the message. Remember: America is not Chile. America is not Chile. America is not Chile. Is it?
“THE…. [Sodomite] Hal Duncan”.
Nobody asked for this. Did they?
Americans. Thick as shit. (But don’t flatter yourself your country is any better).
the spanish prisoner
October 3, 2009 at 1:48 amI don’t see any real possibility of a military coup. After all, Obama is an imperialist. Why would the military want to overthrow him? What’s actually happening is that the US media are devoting more and more attention to the loony right, as a way of drowning out the left.
skidmarx
December 1, 2009 at 6:28 amShouldn’t that be “cachet” rather than “cache”. And I understand that New England can be quite chilly in the wintertime.
Martin Wisse
December 2, 2009 at 4:00 pmGood catch. Yes, it should be.