What remains of hipsters and Occupy?

Is the hipster a tormenter, an avant-gardist, a sense of free media hype, a chimera? Wall Street was to Occupy a revolutionary movement impetus or a boys-trick with the camp? How will both look back on in a few decades? After the reading of Mark Cross in the workroom is room for speculation boldest kind

Time Warp 2025: Students of cultural studies and sociology lecture in the genesis of the seminars each other neo-hipsters, whose golden age is estimated at the turn of the millennium, and create hipster types. One of these types of neo-hipsters, who paid homage to the lifestyle and exclusive insider information claimed for himself, who always fancied one step ahead, similar care as the hippie, punk, mod and rocker of the analyzes. Former hipster talk in qualitative interviews, what they remember of the movement nor how it felt, back in Berlin-Mitte, Shoreditch London or New York City-Williamsburg to belong to an avant-garde. As a chronicler of the American intellectual movement is Mark Griffin, who teaches now at Harvard, author of several highly decorated manuals and anthologies on the subject. Cross has not only unmasked the hipster phenomenon, but as a chronicler of the beginnings of the movement Occupy described Wall Street.

Some people will remember then, as they were the first guests in 2012 reading tour of Germany and his grip on 8th February at the Munich plant room, listened as the books' Hipster - A transatlantic discussion "and" Blue Screen "and" Occupy! The first few weeks have been debated in New York. " They are still just in front of them, what a tremendously friendly, narrative joyful, entertaining, witty and wise narrator of this gripping but, speaking smooth English, with his red shirt, uncool the totally inappropriate hipster-zero glasses and short dark brown, tousled hair, who, according to testimony of his wife, not even the Hipstertums was suspect, be far too unhip but his clothes, so the wife.

America's tradition of intellectual

You will remember how charming Greif replied to every question, as he enthusiastically n of the origin of the magazine he co-founded + 1, and told how he continued the grand tradition of American intellectual in the sense of Judith Butler. As the audience in his generous manner his photo album showing the Occupy-Wall Street activists, with an enthusiasm that is usually only own parents, who keep pictures of their babies with pride each under the nose.

We will keep in mind, such as Mark Cross with glowing eyes of the Occupy-weeks in New York Zucotti Park told that little, originally faceless piece of New York, in which appeared a few weeks long possible to redeem what the American utopia of democracy, freedom and equality of all ethnic groups promised.