Huxley reported a series of experiments on a frog, showing very similar reflexive behavior even when its spinal cord had been severed, or large portions of its brain removed.
"Those two songs were very self-reflexive," Meloy says.
It was all very self-reflexive and postmodern, which is appropriate.
Indeed our devotion to that book embodied something quite Flann-esque: feckless students wasting their time by drinking and chatting about a feckless student wasting his time by drinking and chatting, et cetera, et cetera... It was all very self-reflexive and postmodern, which is appropriate.
People live very conscious and reflexive; they work less and spend more time for leisure and spiritual exercise.
There is even a very early self-reflexive photograph, "Silber Repousse Mirror from Knole House," 1853, by the British photographer Charles Thurston Thompson.
As for the prospect of more Jump Streets, the idea is comprehensively trashed at the beginning and end of the film in some very sharp self-reflexive satire, which uses up loads of perfectly serviceable ideas and generally burns its franchise boats.
"Science is part of culture, but scientists are sometimes not very good about being reflexive, or reflective for that matter.
Like that glossy, glistening bauble of a film, "Che" seems to me very much a self-reflexive endeavor, a movie not just about two revolutionary campaigns, but also about the struggles — logistical, emotional, psychological — of moviemaking itself.
"Teaching machines how to see is a very insightful and self-reflexive endeavor in which you have to start at the very beginning as computers are primarily a text-based medium," Schmieg adds.
