hermeticism

• “On the more global level of mythology, Dollhouse 1.6 works very hard to expand the show past the tight hermeticism of the first few episodes.”

  Dollhouse, Rape Culture, and Women in Refrigerators « Gerry Canavan

• “Guston may have chosen what felt like freedom at the time, but it drew him only deeper into himself, into a personal hermeticism and despair.”

  The Washington Post: Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips

• “It's extraordinary to think that whereas Albarn has been bringing himself up to speed with concepts of hermeticism, Euclidian geometry and Rosicrucianism, his erstwhile Britpop rival Liam Gallagher has formed Beady Eye.”

  The Guardian: Dr Dee, Palace Theatre, Manchester | First night review

• “The composer's only opera, "Pelléas et Mélisande," is indeed a triumph of hermeticism and otherworldliness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: An Otherworldly Opera

• “It is Faur's contention that the Kabbalist rabbis, seen through the filter of the vertical model, transform the Talmudic tradition -- based on a pluralistic dialogue and formal legal strictures -- into an occult hermeticism creating a Judaism that is sealed off from critical reading and rational science.”

  The Huffington Post: David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist

• “The introverted vista of the windowless arcade corresponds in remarkable ways to the naked hermeticism of modern nightlife.”

  Club Monad

• “In order to understand the hermeticism of the verbal topology comprising the substance of nightlife, and in order to articulate the various modes of obscurity intrinsic to the nightspot, one must attend more closely to the solipsistic relations characteristic of monadic substance.”

  Club Monad

• “And the Portuguese critic João Gaspar Simões wrote: Its hermeticism has the texture of the hermeticism of dreams.”

  clarice lispector | mother’s day, a pious invention « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “Another time, the staunchly Communistic Siqueiros said: “Orozco, faithful to his traditional hermeticism and misanthropy, succumbed to apolitical passivity at the same time that he drowned in the empty symbolism of pseudo-revolutionary art.””

  Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals

• “Most discussions of the topic, in my experience, and I've written about this a lot myself, seem to fall into the hermeticism vs. "dumbing down" camps.”

  Progress report on online poetry ...

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