Generation X No More

Joshua Glenn has a great series of essays that rethinks the original Generations nomenclature of Strauss and Howe. First he subdivides each generation into smaller, more nuanced and granular cohorts and then describes each in terms of its contributions to high- and low-brow culture. Interesting reading, especially now that we have groups like the Hardboiled, the New Gods, and the Anti-anti-utopians.

So generation X is no more. We're now Generation PC (64-73) and Net Generation (74-83).

Here's the full list:

1844-53: [Progressive Generation] Prometheans
1854-63: [Progressive, Missionary Generations] Plutonians
1864-73: [Missionary Generation] Anarcho-Symbolists
1874-83: [Missionary Generation] Psychonauts
1884-93: [Lost Generation] Modernists
1894-1903: [Lost, Greatest/GI Generations] Hardboileds
1904-13: [Greatest/GI Generation] Partisans
1914-23: [Greatest/GI Generation] New Gods
1924-33: [Silent Generation] Postmodernists
1934-43: [Silent Generation] Anti-Anti-Utopians
1944-53: Boomers
1954-63: [Boomers, Late Boomers, Post-Boomers, Generation Jones] OGXers
1964-73: [Generation X, Thirteenth Generation] Constructivists
1974-83: [Generations X, Y] Revivalists
1984-93: [Millennial Generation] Throwbacks
1994-2003: [Millennial Generation] TBA