scenesterism
English
Etymology
scenester + -ism
Noun
scenesterism (uncountable)
- The culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene.
- 2012, Stuart Berman, Too Much Trouble: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones, →ISBN:
- It was an unexpected tip of the fedora from a group of artists who, like Danko Jones, had slogged it out on the late '90s American indie circuit but had since left the insular scenesterism behind to pursue loftier ambitions.
- 2016, Mark Mattern, Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins, →ISBN:
- Wasik's motivation, he claimed in 2006 and later, was to spoof the hipsterism and scenesterism that he found rampant in New York City by creating an artificial and allegedly hip new trend.
- 2019, Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow, →ISBN:
- In a personal post on Medium, Laird said he hoped the ouster would help educate others about systemic sexism in hackerdom, exacerbated by a tendency toward rule-breaking, distrust of legal authorities in reporting transgressions, and some excessive scenesterism: “There's been a lot of looking the other way in the hacker community when powerful people overstep the bounds, and that has to stop."
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