The social representation I have for metacritical thinking, and according to my current "personal sense", is a critical approach to critical approaches - in other words: the critic of the Critic.
I do not know the russian neomarxist (postmarxist?) authors you reffer to in your post, but - if I understand you well - they do a critic of marxist traditional critical thinking. As also do, in someway, Newman and Holzman - specially when they invite readers of their *LV a revolutionary scientist* to ACTIVITY, to elect "tool-and-results" method as way of beeing in the world, as high motive to guide and find some sense within their lives and social relations, that's to say, to act.
It came to my mind the pictures of Malievich, all that of those peasants with black head and some point of light inside it, but no mouth, no eyes, no ears, no nose but big hands and feet. And that pictures of man and woman with a bright read head - also with no mouth, ears, nose where we cannot see the feet or the hands...
If we put side by side all russian avantguard metacritical thinking through plastic language-production and the neorealist plastic discourse-production that came with Stalin one can have a better idea of what I'm naming here "metacritical thinking".
Can you remmember Chagall's "go for a walk" ("Passeio" in Portuguese)? [I love that picture. If I could, I would have the original one iside my home... that bright read aside that absyntean green and that white background... and that lady flying in the sky, among the clouds, but with her hand given to that man with feet over the land, handing a bird... I love it so much... It says so much to me...]
Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu
Professor da Universidade do Estado da Bahia-Uneb X
http://www.ricardojapiassu.pro.br
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