On Making It Up 097, Eugene and Charis discuss only one topic this week, but go all in on it. Greg Jackson’s essay “Hipster Elegies” provides the starting point for a conversation on the history of the hipster and the importance of the hipster on the evolution of culture.

Timestamps

00:02:27 Effect of the hipster

Links

• Hipster Elegies: The death and life of the great American hipster offers an alternative history of culture over the last quarter century
• Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
• The Modern Creator’s Paradigm