METANARRATIVE: A metanarrative (also meta-narrative; French: métarécit) in critical theory and particularly in postmodernism is a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea.
HYPERREAL: In semiotics and postmodernism, hyperreality is an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies.
REFERENTIALITY: the quality or state of being referential or containing references
REDUCTIONISM: the practice of analysing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents, especially when this is said to provide a sufficient explanation.
EDUTAINMENT: computer games, television programmes, or other material, intended to be both educational and enjoyable.
aestheticize: past tense: aestheticized; past participle: aestheticized
represent as beautiful or artistically pleasing.
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