{"product_id":"9780062072450","title":"What Was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write this history without contempt or nostalgia? Why are we tempted to declare the neo-hipster moment over, when the hipster's \"global brand\" has just reached its apotheosis? A panel of n+1 writers, including Mark Greif, Christian Lorentzen, and Jace Clayton (aka dj\/rupture) invited the public to join an investigation into the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir debate took place at the New School University in New York City, and was followed by articles, responses, and essays, all printed here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The hipster is that person, overlapping with declassing or disaffiliating groupings—the starving artist, the starving graduate student, the neo-bohemian, the vegan or bicyclist or skatepunk, the would-be blue-collar or post-racial individual—who in fact aligns himself both with rebel subculture and with the dominant class, and opens up a poisonous conduit between the two.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Isn't hipsterism, like, the best thing that's happened at the end of the Bush years?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The truth was that there was no culture worth speaking of, and the people called hipsters just happened to be young, and more often than not, funny looking.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077939052784,"sku":"9780062072450","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062072450_p0.jpg?v=1769909393","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062072450","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}