http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ouroboros Posts tagged with 'ouroboros' at MetaFilter. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:59:56 -0800 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:59:56 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73760/Hipster%2DThe%2DEnd%2Dof%2DWester%2DCivilization <a href="http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html">Self-described 'culture-jammers' Adbusters identify the greatest threat to our way of life - the hipster.</a> First used to describe <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200102/marcus">white jazz afficionados in the 40's</a>, the alternative subculture it now describes is defined by both the intensity of <a href="http://diehipster.com/">apparent hatred for it</a>, and the difficulty in finding anyone who <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/05/02/niedzviecki/index.html">will admit they are one</a>. What's the deal with hipsters? Are they a <a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/spoofs_satire/do_you_have_hipsters.php">literal plague</a> of social mimicry and shallowness, a <a href="http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Hipster_PDA/Hacks">cross-breeding experiment</a> with productivity fetishists, or just a meme for <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/51633/This-is-the-new">promoting shitty bands</a>? Or perhaps the whole thing is just a marketing ploy for <a href="http://www.robwalker.net/html_docs/pabst.html">cheap beer</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73760 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:59:56 -0800 adbusters definition hipster irony ouroboros threat Happy Dave http://www.metafilter.com/68463/This%2Dis%2Dthe%2Dtitle%2Dof%2Dthis%2Dpost - <a href="http://www.uwm.edu/~chruska/recursive/moser.html">This is the Title of this Story</a><br> - <a href="http://www.uwm.edu/~chruska/recursive/selfref.html">Self-reference in 'Self-reference in...'</a><br> - <a href="http://singlenesia.com/eris/selfres">This is Not the Title of this Essay</a><br> - <a href="http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2006/04/29/3504.html">How I explained infodumps and saved humanity </a> Wonkier tangents: - <a href="http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html">on quines</a> (self-replication in computer programs) - Peter Suber on <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/slfreflw.htm">self-reference in law</a>. Obligatory <a href="http://xkcd.com/33/">xkcd</a>. Related previous posts: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/37712">1</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/44614">2</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68463 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:36:26 -0800 loop ouroboros paradox quine self-reference self-replication cortex