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photo Trompe le Monde: Slavoj Žižek on Hipsters (a Translation) «  Generation Bubble There’s no place like sinthome: hipsters cut the Borromean Knot. The Borromean knot, as you no doubt know, is a series of three rings that will be completely severed if any one ring is severed, resulting in psychosis. Hipster and its utterance exist as manifestations of the sinthome or “symptom,” the fourth order in Lacan’s model of the Borromean knot (see diagram). The symptom is that ring that must come into existence when the knot itself is threatened. Hipster, is that place where the real, the imaginary and the symbolic combine into one. The hipster, known only through the utterance “hipster,” is, then, the overcoming of an individual as well as a cultural psychosis, through an act of individual and group projection in the strictly Freudian sense.

Trompe le Monde: Slavoj Žižek on Hipsters (a Translation) «  Generation Bubble

There’s no place like sinthome: hipsters cut the Borromean Knot.

The Borromean knot, as you no doubt know, is a series of three rings that will be completely severed if any one ring is severed, resulting in psychosis. Hipster and its utterance exist as manifestations of the sinthome or “symptom,” the fourth order in Lacan’s model of the Borromean knot (see diagram). The symptom is that ring that must come into existence when the knot itself is threatened. Hipster, is that place where the real, the imaginary and the symbolic combine into one. The hipster, known only through the utterance “hipster,” is, then, the overcoming of an individual as well as a cultural psychosis, through an act of individual and group projection in the strictly Freudian sense.

2 years ago

October 21, 2009