My #normcore cartoon.pic.twitter.com/Knkw5p2sKi
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@KeenanCummings The Onion called out the paradox almost a decade ago. http://www.theonion.com/articles/why-cant-anyone-tell-im-wearing-this-business-suit,11185/ …
@vgr a freedom to embrace and appropriate identities with full sincerity and authenticity. No irony
@KeenanCummings you *really* think a Brooklyn hipster can wear Nascar gear the way an actual nascar fan can?
@vgr but normcore is about non-ironic, sincere appropriation. The barriers to that sincerity are more than hipster-ish irony...
@KeenanCummings irony doesn't preclude sincerity. So long as there's double-coding: they're aware of choices in a way actual norms aren't
@vgr it's whole cultural set of norms that reward sticking to a single identity and committing to well defined tribes
@vgr I read the idea of normcore as a breaking down of those cultural pressures, a blurring of the edges of those tribes...
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