Metacrap
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metacrap is a noun meaning (social sciences, derogatory) Metatheory, metanalysis, and other meta disciplines.
Meaning
(social sciences, derogatory) Metatheory, metanalysis, and other meta disciplines.
More Meanings
- (Internet, derogatory) Low-quality or unreliable metadata.
Example Sentences
Clearly the layers of pretense and self-awareness and metacrap are thick.
More formally we can say that the metadata is fragile or inconsistent. More forcefully this has been described as 'metacrap'.
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.
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.
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