I’m interested in how a domain, work of language or art, mathematical proof, movie, etc. can be “up its own ass”
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I think the core is being excessively self-focused, in repetitions/layers, and ignoring outside world - ultra-advanced omphaloskepsis
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i would not classify House of Leaves or GEB as being up their own ass despite adhering to this definition
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seems to be a distinction between recursion that defines an indefinitely growing structure vs that which defines a structure that collapses (formally, corecursion vs structural recusion)
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are you a bad enough dude to I’m extremely sorry
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