The meta of the meta picture is the meta within the meta of the picture...

It's apparent that the theory of meta picture is almost directly related to the concept of Hypertext.
When dealing with hypertext we are aware that the basic concept is infinite change and infinte ability to expand. I wonder if this is the only difference between Hypertext and meta picture; well that and that metapicture deals with pictures. This paragraph opens the arguement into a new pane, “The “New World” designated by the title is not the abstracted world of the autonomous, alienated artist, but our world (“America” or “1964,” as the caption puts it), a world that is not merely represented by pictures, but actually constituted and brought into being by picture-making. It is a perfect illustration of what I have called the “pictorial turn” in postmodernism culture, the sense that we live in a world of images, a world in which, to paraphrase Derrida, there is nothing outside the picture” (Mitchell 41). So is this an argument that we live inside of a picture? That life itself is a metapicture?

We were given examples of paintings and drawings such as the duck rabbit, but that is a representation of life within a picture. “The search is neither for a duck nor a rabbit, but for a curios hybrid that looks like nothing else but itself (Mitchell 53).

 “Pictorial self-reference is, in other words, not exclusively a formal, internal feature that distinguishes some picture, but a pragmatic, functional feature, a matter of use and context. Any picture that is used to reflect on the nature of pictures is a metapicture (Mitchell 57).

So what are we reflecting on exactly. Are we reflecting on the fact the the picture itself is serving as a meta account that challanges the way we see things? Or is the picture becoming "meta" only because it is in fact aware of what it represents? It represents not simply a duck rabbit as a functional physical character or image, but almost as a mirror to a certain meta-awarness of thw world that is outside the picture that is actually being represented within the picture itself. This is where it ties into the theory of hypertext, it seems that the meta picture has no limit in that it can be representative of endless thigns, even thought one is looking at a specific physically "representative" image of something. It's like when we were reading McCloud and we were actually looking at a drawing of a drawing of picture.