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“In Berlin, I experience icks I never thought possible.”
Yet Perfection transcends its satire of 2010s hipsterdom through the depth of Latronico’s sociological observations. This chronicle of contemporary Berlin is strongest in its articulation of how a certain kind of globalisation dislocates us from our surroundings.
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review – an object lesson in hollow hipsterism
How to treat Paris like it’s Los Angeles
Complain about the “commute” between the rive gauche and the rive droite
Scope out coffee shops and, since they’re all good, only the enter the ones where everyone is under 40 and well dressed
Go to magazine stores and pretend to care about any of the magazines without celebrities, maybe buy one and ignore
... See moreShe told me that most cleaners at the hostel were artists and often collaborated on projects. But when I told her I was a writer, she didn’t bother to ask what kind. Was it because I wasn’t dressed like a Berlin artist (my pants were black but my T-shirt was white) (and I don’t own any combat boots) or could she tell from my eyes that I haven’t
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