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Dagli yuppie agli hipsters (corollario del corollario)

Once we had a name for them, we suddenly realized that they were everywhere, like the pod people of Invasion of the Body Snatchers-especially here in New York, the urbanest place of all. We might have even recognized them as us. From the beginning, there was a certain subject/object confusion associated with the yuppie concept, a certain "we have met the enemy and he is us" self-reflexivity to the phenomenon. Mentre Repubblica tracciava un identikit dell'hipster un po' superficiale ma sicuramente meno impreciso e irritante di quanto personalmente mi aspetti da quel tipo di testata; mentre i lettori [...]