July 21: Decolonize Hipsters by Greg Pierrot

July 21, Wednesday11am New York | 4pm Paris | 5pm Johannesburg Friendly guided discussion about Decolonize Hipsters. Author Greg Pierrot will join us for the final half hour to chat with partcipants.   Discussion hosted by Michael Busch About the BookFew urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of mainstream culture, cultural commodity, status, butt of all jokes and ready-made meme. But frightening as it is to imagine, for more than a century hipsters have been lurking among us. Defined by their appearances and the cloud of meaning attached to them—the cool vanguard of gentrification, the personification of capitalism with a conscience—hipsters are all looks, and these looks are a visual timeline to America’s past and present. Underlining this timeline is the pattern of American pop