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metacrap
noun 2
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2ADJ.
cutting, thick
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out
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1
Metatheory, metanalysis, and other meta disciplines.
In art, as in language, “cutting out the metacrap” means to get at the “core” meaning beneath the “superficial form” of a work; what it seems to be is different from what it means.
Clearly the layers of pretense and self-awareness and metacrap are thick.
2
Low-quality or unreliable metadata.
People who refer to the metacrap argument are generally advocating “letting the software sort it out” instead of asking people to explicitly tag everything before making any contribution.
More formally we can say that the metadata is fragile or inconsistent. More forcefully this has been described as 'metacrap'.
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In art, as in language, “cutting out the metacrap” means to get at the “core” meaning beneath the “superficial form” of a work; what it seems to be is different from what it means.
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Clearly the layers of pretense and self-awareness and metacrap are thick.
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In this vein, amusing to hear (the first time) was Lieberman’s recounting how, at an international conference on language, Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst and philosopher, gave a presentation
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