Hipster Cool as Class Weapon

The article spotlights Michel Clouscard’s thesis that post‑1960s consumer capitalism fused with progressive culture to form a 'liberal‑libertarian' order where fashionable transgression confers status and political leverage. In this view, culture—not production—became the main battlefield for hierarchy, turning 'coolness' into a mechanism of class power. — This reframes the culture war as a class‑formation strategy that aligns corporate capitalism with progressive cultural signaling.