Chiming with observations made at the end of
this recent post--about "creatives" as a new cosmopolitan class, bohemia remodelled for the era of branding and blogging--an article lambasting
hipsterdom riles up a huge number of
folk (
23 pages of
comments, not
all hostile) and provokes a
typically interesting rebuttal from Momus, who, with his nomadic lifestyle (Tokyo>Berlin>Williamsburg>London>Edinburgh>Tokyo>) and restlessly mobile aesthetic, his Japanophilia and his privileging of the
faux/unrooted/
"superflat", was very much a pioneer, an early
settler on this post-geographical "terrain".