self-referentiality

The moment when Jonas watches his sleepwalking self peer into the camera at his awakened self (or vice versa?) is almost vertiginous in its self-referentiality.

Translated Texts 2010

"Martel's aims are ambitious, but the prose is amateur and the characters thin, the coy self-referentiality grates ..."

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel: Book summary 2010

In an act of quite startling self-referentiality, Harvey Nichols has dedicated its whole Christmas facade to the act of display building itself: snow-like piles of polystyrene packaging and frosty, crumpled clingfilm decorate the windows, evoking the atmosphere of the store's design studio as a team of improbably dressed mannequins set about carving out giant Arctic-themed props.

Christmas through the looking glass 2011

That's enough self-referentiality to make an Asian chick's fauxhawk spin right off of her suddenly-pretty head.

Disgrasian: Vogue Magazine: Asian Women Are Beautiful (Finally) Disgrasian 2010

That's enough self-referentiality to make an Asian chick's fauxhawk spin right off of her suddenly-pretty head.

Disgrasian: Vogue Magazine: Asian Women Are Beautiful (Finally) Disgrasian 2010

Why Everybody Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay ', explains: "Finance, like other forms of human behaviour, underwent a change in the twentieth century, a shift equivalent to the emergence of modernism in the arts - a break with common sense, a turn towards self-referentiality and abstraction and notions that couldn't be explained in workaday English."

Johann Hari: How Goldman Sachs Gambled On Starving the Poor - And Won 2010

It's "Less Than Zero" crossed with name-dropping "Glamorama" and paranoiac "Lunar Park" (plus occasional violent speckles of "American Psycho"), a vast spiral of postmodern self-referentiality that will leave your head spinning.

Book Review Roundup 2010

Even Ira might have smiled at that one — or maybe the self-referentiality of Run DMC: This beat is my recital;

Archive 2008-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Why Everybody Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay ', explains: "Finance, like other forms of human behaviour, underwent a change in the twentieth century, a shift equivalent to the emergence of modernism in the arts - a break with common sense, a turn towards self-referentiality and abstraction and notions that couldn't be explained in workaday English."

Johann Hari: How Goldman Sachs Gambled On Starving the Poor - And Won 2010

It's "Less Than Zero" crossed with name-dropping "Glamorama" and paranoiac "Lunar Park" (plus occasional violent speckles of "American Psycho"), a vast spiral of postmodern self-referentiality that will leave your head spinning.

Book Review Roundup 2010