Skeuomorphic

skeu·o·morph

an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.

Apple designs their phones as skeuomorphic

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memetic skeuomorph

Aesthetic contra-reference that contains decidable information.

An augmented-reality attribute in hyper-reality that serves a functional purpose.

A virtual attribute made of a functional (homoiconic) computer language.

Contains attributes of aesthetic self-reference.

Direct technological precursor to conscious self-reference.

Memetic skeuomorphs contra-referential, recursive, and functional.

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ironic skeuomorph

A skeumorph that is self-functional.

Self-function begins as meta-representation (juxtaposition) and ends as representation (self-reference).

A medium for conveying irony.

Including but not limited to vignettes, books, television, GIF's, and memes.

An ironic skeuomorph is self-referencing to the point of being a medium-in-itself.

gestural skeuomorph

A gestural skeuomorph is founded on the concept that time sweeps space-itself in a cyclical manner so as to create space.

In the paradigm of the gestural skeuomorph time is beckoning to human beings with physical space.

Space is a gesture created by the Structure-Of-Time.

Skeuomorphs can be divided into four types: physical, virtual, auditory, and chronistic.

Space is a type of auditory skeuomorph; a chronistic or gestural skeuomorph created by the structure of time.