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Narcyzm hipsterski

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Jeziński M., Wojtkowski Ł.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2020

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vol. 108

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issue 1

29-42

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This article discusses the topic of narcissism on hipster visual blogs where the identity constructed by their authors has a narcissistic dimension defined primarily by the medium they use: photos, texts, short videos and sounds, whereby the former prevail. People who publish such blogs have created a specific code and manner in which they present their real identity by means of visual representations which they borrow from other members of this post-subculture. It is a result of a tendency to disguise oneself by using certain methods of self-presentation. They include self-defining photos of modern hipsters, which however are out of focus or accordingly filtered, show selected cultural practices from a distance or only parts of the body and clothing, a set of gadgets and environments recognised as hipster. As such they reveal conformist inclinations that are in line with the reference group and what is expected from it. This means that cultural practices that create the identity of a digital hipster are associated with generating a symbolic universe of meanings, where nostalgia, symbolism, iconography of selected elements of life are among frequently posted motives (cups of coffee, a bicycle, a collection of vinyl records, hipster clothes, specific urban spaces, nature, etc.). This kind of narcissism is about looking at one’s own reflection; however, not so much in the mirror as in symbolic visual representations characteristic of the entire digital hipster culture. Using netnography and based on their content analysis of 48 blogs, the authors argue that the development of one’s hipster narcissistic identity is part of a media practice that revolves around building the ‘self’ by referring to cultural codes shared by members of the hipster post-subculture (‘I’ and ‘us’). As a result, the hipster narcissism studied here seems to take the form and cultural identity of bricolage, and as such is subject to commodification.

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„Som hipster a neviem o tom.“ : pátranie po príznakových estetických hodnotách hipsterstva

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Malíčková M.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2019

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vol. 106

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issue 1

49-67

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The media studies vocabulary has included the word hipster in multiple ways recently and named thus seemingly unrelated phenomena. Our focus is on what puts together this diversity, and to what extent this rhetoric responds to the existing hipster values system that is more a life feeling than style or subculture. The dynamics between life style and subculture identity, dissolution of strong subcultures to tribes, scenes, and so on, or the doubt – denial even – of subculture identity are the motives that hipsterhood implicitly thematizes in the way of its cultural presentation and semantic sedimentation. We are interested mainly in existential semantics of hipsterhood as a life feeling with the stress on its aesthetic qualities, the questioning of the perception of hipsterhood – dissolving semantics of the concept and unclear semantics of the phenomenon that oscillates between a worldview, life style and fashionable trend. Methodological key to the understanding will be the interpretation of tension between the values defined by the dynamics of contradiction.

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V mediálnom slovníku sa v poslednom období často skloňujú termíny hipster, hipsterský a to vo veľmi rozmanitých väzbách, na pomenovanie zdanlivo nesúvisiacich fenoménov. Zaujíma nás, čo túto rôznorodosť spája, do akej miery táto rétorika reaguje na existujúci hodnotový systém hipsterstva, azda viac životného pocitu, štýlu než subkultúry. Práve dynamika vzťahu medzi životným štýlom a subkultúrnou identitou, rozpúšťanie silných subkultúr na kmene, scény a podobne, či spochybňovanie až odmietanie subkultúrnej identity sú motívy, ktoré implicitne tematizuje aj hipsterstvo, spôsoby jeho kultúrnej prezentácie a sémantického usádzania. Zaujíma nás teda predovšetkým existenciálna sémantika hipsterstva ako životného pocitu s dôrazom na jeho estetické kvality, problematizácia vnímania hipsterstva – rozplývavá semiotika pojmu a nejasná sémantika fenoménu – v polohách medzi svetonázorom, životným štýlom a módnou vlnou. Metodologickým kľúčom k porozumeniu bude interpretačné preverovanie hodnotového napätia definovaného dynamikou protikladov: subjekt verzus komunita, ultramoderné verzus starobylé, tradícia verzus originalita a novosť, mesto verzus vidiek, túžba po koreňoch a nostalgia za domovom verzus kozmopolitizmus.

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„Hipster to tylko słowo”. Nieporozumienia wokół pojęcia a nowe zjawiska kontrkulturowe

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Sznapka A.

Amor Fati

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2016

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issue 2(6)

165-186

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The main point of the article is to achieve a kind of clarity on the topic of hipsterism. The mean-ing of the word ‘hipster’ has undergone many changes in terms of its common understanding, since it first occurred in 1940s. Due to ironic discourse in media based on American popculture and stereotypes, unveiling its actual meaning nowadays is almost impossible. Especially for Eastern Europeans unable to grasp the context with all its nuances. The common conception of the word ‘hipster’ in Poland is close to ‘poser’ and revolves around particular negative connota-tions. This is however a simplified meaning. In fact, sticking to this particular understanding based on an image presented in the media prevents us from delving into more interesting con-texts of hipsterism. Having explained mechanisms of misunderstanding the word, the author turns to examine different aspects - historical, sociological, cultural and economical – of the ‘hip-sters issue’. There is an affinity between hipster behavior and the creative class theory by Rich-ard Florida. Hipsterism appears also as a novelty in terms of counterculture. Actually it is push-ing counterculture into the age of late modernity giving it a form that is fully addressing changes like globalization, mass production, inquisitive, aggressive marketing. At last, author examines the issue of locality and Polish inclinations regarding hipsterism. The most crucial point, howev-er, is setting a boundary between what most of us regards as “hipsterism” (the posering) and what the initial concept of it implied (the independence). What turns out is that the previous, seemingly forgotten by the public discourse, meaning can be applied to some interesting and positive post-modern phenomena.

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Narcyzm hipsterski

„Som hipster a neviem o tom.“ : pátranie po príznakových estetických hodnotách hipsterstva

„Hipster to tylko słowo”. Nieporozumienia wokół pojęcia a nowe zjawiska kontrkulturowe