But of course hipsterism is by nature transient, mutable, evanescent.

Mailer, meanwhile, acted on Podhoretz as a magnet of hipsterism.

He continued, "Over time it becomes a style of hipsterism, where everyone dresses the same and is nonconformist in the same way."

And yet by that standard, much of the hipsterism he sanctions seems pretty mainstream, even if it is being "appropriated" (ironic quotation marks mine again).

In this neighborhood, bohemianism begat or gave way to hipsterism in the blink of a decade, and Mr. Fatjo was right there.

However, Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe felt the performance was an example of "hipsterism misdirected".

(See the best episode so far this season, "The Day The Earth Stood Cool," all about the menace of hipsterism.)"

This insistent hipsterism may weary some readers, but, mercifully, the novel's trendy, self-regarding ribaldry consistently yields to its surprisingly tender, guileless heart.

That task falls to Timothy Olyphant, who plays Kelly, Danielle's erstwhile producer and Matt's mentor in lizardy hipsterism.

Though designers rarely display the teeth of politicians or the cultural hipsterism of the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, there is hardly one who doesn't understand the value of a symbol.

Rob Horning developed a critique of hipsterism in his April 2009 article "The Death of the Hipster" in PopMatters, exploring several possible definitions for the hipster.

After he arrived in New York, he now says, he quickly outgrew the raw, aimless, "hungry for kicks" hipsterism personified by Neal Cassady's character, Dean Moriarty, in On the Road.

Unlike other Gainsbourg devotees, there is not a trace of irony or hipsterism here, and he even already has his own equivalent of Jane Birkin, Ms. Clément, whose equally precious album he wrote and produced.

David Denby, concluding a mixed review of the film for New York Magazine, mused that "one feels Jarmusch has pushed hipsterism and cool about as far as they can go, and that isn't nearly far enough."

Theatre Genesis is a mix of counterculture ingredients; a coolness that can explode like liquid oxygen, a dropout hipsterism, a polymorphous perversity of language and feeling, a Zap Comix mocking of straight heads. '

The program began with Mr. Whitener's "Jaywalk" (2006), a study in slightly dated hipsterism set mostly to jazz and drawing on almost all of his varied background, Mr. Robbins and Mr. Fosse especially.

Over the last few months he has worn it while helping Denzel Washington bottle a serial killer's evil spirit in "Fallen," while affecting an air of deadpan hipsterism in "Blues Brothers 2000," while squeezing palm-size people in his fist in "The Borrowers."

Paul Desmond The alto saxophonist with the edgeless, spring-water sound in Dave Brubeck's quartet, Desmond was one of those jazz mysteries who pulled the covers around him so tightly - a compulsive privacy disguised as hipsterism - it was hard to discern the complete person.

Rick Marin, of the New York Times, gave it a favorable review, though he pointed out "much of the hipsterism he sanctions seems pretty mainstream, even if it is being 'appropriated'...Such quibbles, though, won't penetrate the protective pomo coating on Lanham's mirrored shades."