When we chat about the up to date hipster, we’re chatting about a subcultural figure who emerged by 1999, liked a slender but strong first stage till 2003, and then seemed about to dissipate into the primordial subcultural soup, only to undertake a reorganization and creeping spread from 2004 to the current. Here he was, going for walks across campus on a glittering spring day previous 12 months to speak to the faculty psychologist.