metareflexive

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1. Reflecting on the process of reflection.

   Examples of metareflexive texts include Derridean deconstruction, Garfinkelian ethnomethodology […] Metareflexive writers are obsessed with methodology to the exclusion of all else […]

   1989, Malcolm Ashmore, The Reflexive Thesis, page 60

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   The answer is perhaps easier in the case of the latter, for one can indeed reread the above dialogue as a metareflexive commentary on the difficulties of understanding that this film brings into play.

   2013, Greg Hainge, Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise, page 194