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By: Joshua Glenn
February 3, 2015

Call this code: Ironic Biker.

Definition: Winking tribute to the midcentury apotheosis of the biker-as-antihero.

Notes on this code: There is an antiheroic biker-shaped hole in our collective unconscious. Nobody can fill it without a protective layer of self-consciousness.

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Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Boston.

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