I believe this is what's known as "self-referential.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Audio Dynamite (updated): James Wolcott] Reference

But Morrison's title also has a self-referential edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Means Black, Too] Reference

The speech was self-referential to an infantile degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

Indeed, your Top 50 approach will become self-referential.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Top U.S. Politics Blogs, Via Technorati's Update] Reference

It can be mannered, and annoyingly and coyly self-referential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Review Roundup] Reference

Lame, self-referential, knowing jokes about playwriting abound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathtrap; Bedlam; Tiny Kushner] Reference

I think this may be the most self-referential moment of my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference

I'm making things that are not, really, all that self-referential.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology Of David Byrne] Reference

This is an astoundingly self-referential, self-absorbed line of argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even If Hillary Got Michigan Revote, It Probably Wouldn't Affect Overall Contest Much] Reference

But not that sense, that self-referential sense or that self-deprecating sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2002] Reference

They are not merely invincibly self-righteous but reflexively self-referential.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

And it's the first time that's really a self-referential record that she's put out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Britney Spears Is So Back — and Now It's Personal] Reference

A great big diversion has belly-flopped in the middle of our self-referential lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Drexler: The Dogs of Destruction] Reference

For 12 issues, we've used this space for overtly self-referential sesquidecimalizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [15th Anniversary: A Look Back at How We Looked Back] Reference

There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Limits of Charisma] Reference

Does anyone outside of the self-referential pundit class watch any of the Sunday talk shows?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Meet The Press" Announces Complete Senate Debate Schedule] Reference

It would be, in his own self-referential world, a work of art: the masterpiece of a lifetime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dance Of Death]

"Hillary for America" is not sufficiently self-referential and petulant (as you get with CfL).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary To Huddle With Her Top Donors In D.C. Today] Reference

"Portrait of an Artist" takes this desperation to its logical end: self-referential paralysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary Suicide Note] Reference

As our relentlessly self-referential president might put it, I feel your pain because I feel mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidential Moisture] Reference

The information revolution has exponentially multiplied the self-referential power of shared language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man is the Measure of All Things] Reference

Our world is self-referential, always referring back to our shared story - even when we are refuting it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man is the Measure of All Things] Reference

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzttttttttt. You can't be self-referential like that, even accidentally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black GOP Group Running Ads Calling Obama "Elitist"] Reference

He just said, in his childishly self-referential way, that other Americans who had spoken here "didn't look like me".    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

In a self-referential land, people can be forgiven for glossing over the fact that New Delhi has hardly been singled out.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to (Super)bug an Aspiring Superpower] Reference

And with each passing film, his performances seem to be getting worse: more over-the-top, more self-referential, more stunted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel L. Jackson Will Yell in his New Movie] Reference

Kristol's additional charge against Obama about self-serving speech raises self-referential issues about Kristol's own column.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seery: Bill Kristol on Obama: No Smoking Gun, But Plenty of Cheap Shots] Reference

It's one big self-referential loop, a Mobius strip in a hall of mirrors on an Escher staircase made of 24-carat preposterousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [This column will change your life: Just the job] Reference

Like its packaging, there's something self-referential about Dzama's art and something reflective of the packaged world we live in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange, Prescient Art Of Marcel Dzama] Reference

And a self-referential arrogance is usually at work all the way down: (I didn't need to know or understand or care or even pay attention).    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen H. Baum: Low Self-Awareness and the DNA of Republican Failure] Reference

Nobody is forced to join your fan page and you can go crazy-mad with self-referential information on it if you truly want to and it's okay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ru Freeman: Facebook Etiquette for Authors] Reference

Or is the passing of the pronoun torch from Me to You less of a break with the solipsistic past and just more of the self-referential same?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Katovsky: The You Decade] Reference