Word: meta
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...audience as well.The sound of stringed instruments that back the opening sequence foretell a disheartening vision of Holcomb, Kansas, closer to the world created by Capote in his “nonfiction novel,” than to the town Capote experienced. The whole movie is strangely meta. Not only are we privy to the story of a writing process, but Miller does his best to capture the mood of Capote’s version of events. And just like in “In Cold Blood,” and any good biographical movie, you stop nitpicking the details?...
...film grasps for salvation in many enjoyable moments, but never regains the momentum of the opening scenes. While Scott’s attempt to get meta with the reality television show subplot is obnoxious, Walken, in typical form, gives a hilarious cameo. The screenplay can be quite strong and very funny, but beats its jokes to death—the career-resuscitating turn from Brian Austen Green of “90210” is constantly greeted with some permutation of: “Is that the guy from 90210? He has not aged well...
...first has to do with a relatively new mechanism for the consumption of opinion writing which is slowly changing the way people interact with news sources: a truly astounding number of weblogs serve largely as aggregators and meta-commentators. Their authors and owners scour the web looking for controversial articles to read, link to, and tear apart in what may very well be the closest thing to meaningful political discourse this country currently has going...
...believe? I believe in those little frogs," the novelist said. This was not J.M. Coetzee, the South African now based in South Australia - he was too busy collecting his 2003 Nobel prize for literature - but his pesky character Elizabeth Costello, whose "Eight Lessons" formed the basis of his last "meta" novel. Stranded at the gates of heaven, she was rambling about the Victorian mudflats of her childhood when Elizabeth Costello came to its oblique...
Chaitin's idea centers on a number he calls omega, which he discovered in 1975 and which is much too complicated to explain here. (Chaitin's book Meta Math! The Quest for Omega, out this month, should help make omega clear.) Suffice it to say that the concept broadens two major discoveries of 20th century math: Gdel's incompleteness theorem, which says there will always be unprovable statements in any system of math, and Turing's halting problem, which says it's impossible to predict in advance whether a particular computer calculation can ever be finished...