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{{Byline|last=Dahlby|first=Tracy|abstract=An investigation of Mailer’s hipster formula, derived from “[[The White Negro]],” and its interconnections to the complex cultural tapestry of American history.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr11dahl}} | {{Byline|last=Dahlby|first=Tracy|abstract=An investigation of Mailer’s hipster formula, derived from “[[The White Negro]],” and its interconnections to the complex cultural tapestry of American history.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr11dahl}} | ||
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Communication is now often experienced as a super-human phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of whom each person might become.{{sfn|Lanier|2010|p=4}} }} | Communication is now often experienced as a super-human phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of whom each person might become.{{sfn|Lanier|2010|p=4}} }} | ||
In “The White Negro,” Mailer had a different order of person-to-person communication in mind: To be hip, he wrote, “is to swing” and to swing is “to communicate, is to convey the rhythms of one’s own being to a lover, a friend, or an audience, and — equally necessary — be able to feel the rhythms of their response.”{{sfn|Mailer| | In “The White Negro,” Mailer had a different order of person-to-person communication in mind: To be hip, he wrote, “is to swing” and to swing is “to communicate, is to convey the rhythms of one’s own being to a lover, a friend, or an audience, and — equally necessary — be able to feel the rhythms of their response.”{{sfn|Mailer|1957|loc=¶23}} Instinctively, we know that such human intimacy isn’t possible when we’re wedded to a screen-based existence that separates us from the world of blood, fiber, touch and smell. Observed Lanier, | ||
{{quote|I know quite a few people, mostly young adults but not all, who are proud to say that they have accumulated thousands of friends on Facebook. Obviously, this statement can only be true if the idea of friendship is reduced. A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. Each acquaintance is an alien, a well of unexplored difference in the experience of life that cannot be imagined or accessed in any way but through genuine interaction.{{sfn|Lanier|2010|p=53}} }} | {{quote|I know quite a few people, mostly young adults but not all, who are proud to say that they have accumulated thousands of friends on Facebook. Obviously, this statement can only be true if the idea of friendship is reduced. A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. Each acquaintance is an alien, a well of unexplored difference in the experience of life that cannot be imagined or accessed in any way but through genuine interaction.{{sfn|Lanier|2010|p=53}} }} | ||
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==Citations== | ==Citations== | ||
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* {{cite book |last=Kerouac |first=Jack |authormask=1 |date=1976 |title=On the Road |url= |location=New York |publisher=Penguin |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Kerouac |first=Jack |authormask=1 |date=1976 |title=On the Road |url= |location=New York |publisher=Penguin |edition=Kindle |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Lanier |first=Jaron |date=2010 |title=You Are Not A Gadget. A Manifesto |url= |location=New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |page= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Lanier |first=Jaron |date=2010 |title=You Are Not A Gadget. A Manifesto |url= |location=New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |page= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
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* {{cite interview |last=Lewis |first=John |subject-link= |interviewer=Judy Woodruff |title=[Interview] |url= |publisher=PBS |location=|date=May 16, 2011 |work=PBS Newshour | | * {{cite interview |last=Lewis |first=John |subject-link= |interviewer=Judy Woodruff |title=[Interview] |url= |publisher=PBS |location=|date=May 16, 2011 |work=PBS Newshour |ref=harv}} | ||
* {{cite web |url=http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/norman-mailer039s-hipster-theory |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605050827/http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/norman-mailer039s-hipster-theory |title=Norman Mailer’s Hipster Theory: Whatever Became of the White Negro? |last=Lorentzen |first=Christian |date=December 31, 2007 |website=More Intelligent Life |publisher=The Economist |archive-date=2012-06-05 |access-date=2015-11-14 |ref=harv }} | * {{cite web |url=http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/norman-mailer039s-hipster-theory |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605050827/http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/norman-mailer039s-hipster-theory |title=Norman Mailer’s Hipster Theory: Whatever Became of the White Negro? |last=Lorentzen |first=Christian |date=December 31, 2007 |website=More Intelligent Life |publisher=The Economist |archive-date=2012-06-05 |access-date=2015-11-14 |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite news |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=November 2, 1972 |title=The Genius |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/11/02/the-genius/ |work=New York Review of Books |location= |access-date=2019-02-24 }} | * {{cite news |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=November 2, 1972 |title=The Genius |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/11/02/the-genius/ |work=New York Review of Books |location= |access-date=2019-02-24 |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite journal |last1=Mailer |first1=Norman |authormask=1 |date=1957 |title=The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster |url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-white-negro-fall-1957 |journal=Dissent |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=276–293 |doi= |access-date=2019-02-24 |ref=harv }} | * {{cite journal |last1=Mailer |first1=Norman |authormask=1 |date=1957 |title=The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster |url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-white-negro-fall-1957 |journal=Dissent |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=276–293 |doi= |access-date=2019-02-24 |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-hipster-in-the-age-of-online-ridicule |title=The Hipster in the Age of Online Ridicule |last1=Pollack |first1=Zoe |last2=Finnegan |first2=Molly |date=June 15, 2010 |website=PBS |publisher=Art Beat |access-date=2019-02-24 |ref=harv }} | * {{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-hipster-in-the-age-of-online-ridicule |title=The Hipster in the Age of Online Ridicule |last1=Pollack |first1=Zoe |last2=Finnegan |first2=Molly |date=June 15, 2010 |website=PBS |publisher=Art Beat |access-date=2019-02-24 |ref=harv }} | ||