Animation by Joanna Neborsky. We recently published a book based on the panel.
The attempt to analyze the hipster provokes such universal anxiety because it calls everyone’s bluff.
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Mark Grief’s “The Hipster in the Mirror”
More on the unspeakable H from other n+1 voices: What Was The Hipster?
Hipster History: Mark Grief on Brian Lehrer
From WNYC:
Mark Greif, co-founding editor of the literary journal n+1 and frequent contributor to The American Prospect, discusses the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show. Greif also participated in a writers’ debate on the topic, published in What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation (n+1 Foundation, 2010).
Listen to it here: