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Cultural authenticity and consumerism: the end of the hipster?

by Sarah Kenny on July 1, 2014

Last weekend The Observer ran an article declaring 'the end of the hipster', predicting a self-implosion of the culture that everyone loves to hate. One article has even argued that ‘the hipster represents the end of Western

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