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Category: Generations

Vs. lazy generational periodization.

TEN STAGES OF MAN

By: Joshua Glenn

One person in their time plays many parts.

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Daniel Clowes — Against Groovy

By: Joshua Glenn

Clowes is an avatar of a lost generation: The OGXers.

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1755-64: Perfectibilists

By: Joshua Glenn

Born from 1755–64, the last Enlighten­ment-era generation.

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1765-74: Original Romantics

By: Joshua Glenn

The authenticity-mongering first Romantic generation.

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1775-84: Ironic Idealists

By: Joshua Glenn

Productively conflicted, passionately skeptical.

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1785-94: Original Prometheans

By: Joshua Glenn

Meet the anti­authoritarian Original Prometheans.

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1795-1804: Monomaniacs

By: Joshua Glenn

Visionaries and sages, crackpots and zealots!

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1805-14: Autotelics

By: Joshua Glenn

Meet the dystopian, self-directed, anti-neoliberal Autotelics.

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1815-24: Retrogressivists

By: Joshua Glenn

Dark, skeptical, ironic, yet romantic Retro­gressivists.

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1825-33: Post-Romantics

By: Joshua Glenn

The generation born 1824-33 is the first post-Romantic one.

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Original Decadents: 1834-43

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1834-1843 cohort paved the way for Modernism.

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Generation TBA: 1993-2002

By: Joshua Glenn

What can we say about the generation born from 1993-2002? Nothing.

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Social Darwikians: 1983-92

By: Joshua Glenn

Meet the Social Darwikians (1983-92), and rejoice.

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Revivalists: 1974-82

By: Joshua Glenn

The precocious, ferocious cohort born from 1974-82.

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Recons: 1964-73

By: Joshua Glenn

Were you born between 1964-73? You’re NOT a Gen Xer!

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