http://blog.fawny.org/2007/05/03/coup/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/05/03/coup/comment-page-1/#comment-1636 ‘Doug’ Coupland’s ‘Generation X’ ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:43:41 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/05/03/coup/#comment-1636 [...] Coupland (q.v.) did not coin the term “Generation X,” nor has he really ever claimed to have done so. In fact, [...] [...] Coupland (q.v.) did not coin the term “Generation X,” nor has he really ever claimed to have done so. In fact, [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/05/03/coup/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Monocular ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Thu, 03 May 2007 19:20:30 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/05/03/coup/#comment-930 [...] Now, a bit more Brûlé analysis. He’d be a Tubby poster boy for the Canadian brain drain if he weren’t queer. He is the acceptable face of Douglas Coupland: A post-Trudeau Canadian who, by defining oneself as not American, implicitly negates borders entirely. Canadians of his (actually our) generation are natively transnational, coevolving with foreign travel, living abroad, international media. Where else was he going to end up? Toronto? (In a “shabby-chic” neighbourhood?) That’s not gonna work. [...] [...] Now, a bit more Brûlé analysis. He’d be a Tubby poster boy for the Canadian brain drain if he weren’t queer. He is the acceptable face of Douglas Coupland: A post-Trudeau Canadian who, by defining oneself as not American, implicitly negates borders entirely. Canadians of his (actually our) generation are natively transnational, coevolving with foreign travel, living abroad, international media. Where else was he going to end up? Toronto? (In a “shabby-chic” neighbourhood?) That’s not gonna work. [...]

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