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Hipster as consumer or as producer ?

I'd always understood "hipster" as someone who tried to claim creativity by proxy, by acquiring someone else's creative output, and trying to defend that acquisition as unique by deriding anyone and everyone else who acquired it as wannabes.

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Posted by on August 8, 2008 8:36 AM |

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