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“The nature of the beast, then, is that “hipster” is always presented as an objective phenomenon and never as a subjective stance. If there is no objective “distance” (physical or temporal) from which to analyze hipsterism, then we must look instead for a subjective one. That is, assuming the position of S over s in the Lacanian algebra, we must posit a critico-analytical stance that places itself squarely within the “taint” of hipster. This taint, as such, is felt not by the hipster — who has not yet revealed himself — but by the one capable of uttering “hipster,” as the ejective enunciation of the utterance “not me.” The analysis must therefore start from the perspective of this subject, the hipster, as the “not me” who is simultaneously embedded in the taint of hipsterism and capable of uttering the utterance “hipster.””
