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Assembling the Metanarrative: speaking prose, whiffs of the madeleine, and a bit of High Fidelity
Meta Wikipedia
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1988 Originally and chiefly U.S. Frequently in predicative use. Designating or characterized by a consciously sophisticated, self-referential, and often self-parodying style, whereby something (as a situation, person, etc.) reflects or represents the very characteristics it alludes to or depicts.1988 He predicts that, like 'retro'..'meta' could become independent from other words, as in 'Wow, this sentence is so meta'. If so, you heard it from me first. New Republic 5 September 17/2
1993 When anchorwoman Connie Chung made a guest appearance on sitcom Murphy Brown to advise anchorwoman Murphy not to sacrifice her journalistic integrity by making a guest appearance on a sitcom, that was just plain meta. Boston Globe (Electronic edition) 8 August
1994 Everything relates to house in a self-conscious or 'meta' way. D. Rushkoff, Cyberia iii. x. 127
1999 An enterprise such as Brill's Content is inherently 'meta', since it doesn't review movies, for example, it reviews the reviewers who review movies. Vanity Fair (New York) August 58/1
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Metaphor Wikipedia
...The word metaphor itself is a metaphor, coming from a Greek term meaning 'transference (of ownership)'. The user of a metaphor alters the reference of the word, "carrying" it from one semantic "realm" to another. The new meaning of the word might derive from an analogy between the two semantic realms, but also from other reasons such as the distortion of the semantic realm — for example in sarcasm.
That's So Meta Merriam-Webster
...In 1988, the journalist Noam Cohen wrote an article for The New Republic titled "Meta-Musings," in which he contemplated the increasing frequency of meta- as a prefix. Cohen quoted David Justice, at the time Merriam-Webster's editor in charge of pronunciation and etymology, who predicted that meta could follow retro as a prefix that developed its own meaning as a standalone word, offering the example, "Wow, this sentence is so meta."
So meta reddit
https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-phrase-this-is-so-meta-mean">What does the phrase "this is so meta" mean? Quora
That's so meta urbandictionary.com
This Story Is So 'Meta' NPR (2012)
That's so meta meta meta Rachael Tatman (2012)
That's So Meta: COS Metascientist Meets with Meta-community Center for Open Science (2022)
...At Stanford University's METRICS center, they do meta-research. As the name implies, they research the research. Meta-researchers apply a wide variety of methodologies to study how research is done and interpreted, in order to reach a rigorous understanding of what makes research reliable, and how it can be strengthened.
Meta Data Center in Ohio dispatch.com
Louisiana's $3B power upgrade for Meta project raises questions about who should foot the bill Fox8
Facebook and the true meaning of Meta BBC (2021)
Facebook changes name to Meta Hindustan Times (2021)