Thursday, February 22, 2007

MetaSniffing

Occasionally I'll post articles or blogs that -- subconsciously or deliberately -- do something meta. Like this one:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070220-8887.html

(To clarify, the link above is for an article that talks about a journal that does something meta, but it's shorter than the original link and features detailed analysis of the meta-ness of the journal, so I chose it instead).

1 comment:

Phillip Wei said...

Is it really a good idea to explain what/how why something is meta? Shouldn't we just ask questions, and establish a Socratic line of inquisition that forces the reader to come to understand these things themselves?

Meta has Heisenberg like qualities -- doesn't it? Do you really want to kill the cat?