Meet Meta

Here is what I didn't know about Meta two or so years ago. 

Meta is "X about X". It's where I tell you a story about a the same story. And so the layering begins where I tell you something about something and then something is said about that something and so on...

It carries a different meaning from the Meta I researched two years ago. Even the link below from the 2011 article has changed to an interdisciplinary journal on aesthetics and culture.

Notes on Meta

Meta seems more like a postscript of postmodernism. Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker (the authors of the above mentioned blog in 2011) used meta to mean "beyond." As in beyond Postmodernism. There new web page doesn't address meta at all. Meta works against the grain of their web page's objectives. 

This may seem true of my blog also. But I disagree. 

I tend towards the Meta of the old Vermeulen and van den Akker, where meta means beyond post-modernism and beyond even post-post-modernism because I do believe meaning matters and shouldn't be brushed off or rejected as non-existent. And Yes! My blog counters Meta in that way. (Everyone sorta does because its crazy confusing to live without meaning.) 

But there is an aesthetic, cultural and realistic appeal to Meta.

The world does spin around its self, humans and truth in general are illusive and metalanguage can address that elusiveness head on. 

So in the spirit of conquering confusion and meaning I appeal to the spirit of confusion and meaning to find an outcome.

Meet Meta!