OTHERNESS AN UNDERGROUND OBSESSION OF HIPSTER STUDENTS A BECOMING MAINSTREAM OBSESSION
OTHERNESS AN UNDERGROUND OBSESSION OF HIPSTER STUDENTS A BECOMING MAINSTREAM OBSESSION

Summary/Abstract: Today's society has a nightmare of being mediocre. People would do almost anything in order to avoid the impression of mediocrity. For us, life has become too short to live it in mediocrity. Hipsters feel this urge to differ, conveying the message of difference through old-fashioned glasses, intelligent quotes from difficult literature and unique clothing. The hipster would rather die than live in constant mediocrity, and pities all those who do not dare to seize the opportunity to differ. This yearning for something else, something Other than the usual manifests itself as a drama in students' life, a psychological struggle. "And where there is no longer anything, there the Other must come to be. We are no longer living the drama of otherness. We are living the psychodrama of otherness, just as we are living the psychodrama of "sociality", the psycho¬drama of sexuality, the psychodrama of the body ‒ and the melodrama of all the above, courtesy of analytic metadiscourses. Otherness has become socio¬dramatic, semio-dramatic, melodramatic."

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