" Joseph Campbell explains ouroboros thus: "Life lives on life.
|
|
It's a reality TV ouroboros, constantly feeding back into itself.
|
|
Sunday night's episode, "Ouroboros," folds in yet another parallel story line.
|
|
The ouroboros is a symbol for the continual flow of death
|
|
It's a true ouroboros of late capitalism and cynical political celebrity.
|
|
And in the process, they've fed themselves into a very strange fame Ouroboros.
|
|
She bribes Dusty for a trip to Paris, in the ultimate scammer ouroboros.
|
|
It is a fierce ouroboros: Trump's incompetence feeds his struggle to recruit his preferred candidates.
|
|
It claims to be fast and scalable, thanks to its Ouroboros proof-of-stake technology.
|
|
This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail.
|
|
And fire is also the season's structural ouroboros: It both starts and ends with conflagration.
|
|
If nothing else, this episode highlights the bizarre, Ouroboros-like nature of Beltway muckraking outfits.
|
|
Its prominence in Denino's live stream can give the whole thing a dizzying ouroboros feel.
|
|
Did we come all this way to rediscover the ouroboros of guilty liberal self-consciousness?
|
|
Cruz painted an ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail, for a piece called Casacabel Enplumada.
|
|
Trauma is a time traveller, an ouroboros that reaches back and devours everything that came before.
|
|
"The logo is a highly simplified ouroboros in the shape of the infinity sign," he said.
|
|
Bearded ouroboros, avid vaper, and Ryan Adams annoyer Father John Misty has released a new song.
|
|
An ouroboros fit strangely better than most genetic models for materials discovered outside of earth's orbit.
|
|
"Hey, No Pressure" comes off LaMontagne's equally psychedelic sixth studio album, Ouroboros, which was released in March.
|
|
The hoop disrupted the silhouette and also provided a cheap gesture at Milady's ouroboros-like alien familiar.
|
|
Humongous tends to make more art-driven pins and patches; my favorite is their cherry-stealing ouroboros.
|
|
" - Aesop Dekker (VHOL, Khôrada, Extremity, Worm Ouroboros, ex-Agalloch) "Words are hard to come by right now.
|
|
Vintage. I have a mild obsession with ouroboros — the snake is eating itself but also birthing itself.
|
|
In ancient Egypt, there was the symbol of the ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail.
|
|
Its problems reflect and contribute to our culture like a big, scandalous, Tide Pod-and-condom-slurping ouroboros.
|
|
It's the sort of pseudo-radical, attention seeking brand of white feminism that is the equivalent to an ouroboros.
|
|
I was like a snake eating its own tail, an Ouroboros feasting on memories of itself watching Seinfeld reruns.
|
|
Culture had decided that the best thing it could do was transform itself into a garish, one joke ouroboros.
|
|
But I don't love the idea that we're increasingly entering a cinematic era where the ouroboros is the default.
|
|
That first house-eating-tail question, for instance, refers to architect Dennis Holloway's Ouroboros Project from the early 1970s.
|
|
Like many of the prototypes on view, the Ouroboros Project increasingly struggled to meet its goal of full autonomy.
|
|
In the ouroboros of politics the right and the left meet at the point when the snake eats its tail.
|
|
Father John Misty, a bearded ouroboros whose new album Pure Comedy is due out in April, has thoughts about Nickelback.
|
|
However, widespread adoption of ad-blocking technology upends this model and gives everyone a chance to slay digital advertising's Ouroboros.
|
|
The breaking is continuous—in the ouroboros of caretaking, guilt and love and fear and love continuously swallow one another.
|
|
The last image displayed, the G-Tower of Flakturm II in Friedrichshain, and then, superimposed, the ouroboros sign of loading.
|
|
The general could not say that the Russian system is an ouroboros — it must consume itself in order to survive.
|
|
There's an almost cyclical nature to his life–it's a blue ouroboros recreating itself, the past and future an inseparable whole.
|
|
In the final days before the draft, the mock draft ouroboros devours itself so quickly that obsessive mockers swallow their own head.
|
|
It began to eat itself, a 21st-century version of that ancient serpent swallowing its own tale — the decade of the ouroboros.
|
|
The creation-and-fall narrative that began to emerge in Prometheus and continues in Alien: Covenant is more ouroboros than straight line.
|
|
At this point, the ouroboros is so tightly wound that the Kardashians and the press might as well be one and the same.
|
|
There's a weird ouroboros effect here, as the new Rocky and Bullwinkle parrots the style of cartoons inspired by the old Rocky and Bullwinkle.
|
|
I will never understand this ouroboros: How much of me is shaped by this trauma, and how much has my life shaped its manifestation?
|
|
The Egyptian and Greek symbol is the OUROBOROS, and this is only the second time it has appeared in a New York Times Crossword.
|
|
Another Life opens with an ouroboros-like alien spacecraft cruising above Earth, then crashing into a soybean field and turning into a crystalline communications tower.
|
|
The company, and its customers, have been caught in an unpleasant ouroboros: The more money it lost, the more restrictions it placed on its plans.
|
|
But if you come across one that's devouring its own tail known as the ouroboros, the connotation of this coiled creature is much more specific.
|
|
It's fitting, then, that Veronika — the only character untouched by the original movie's damaged universe — should be the catalyst for this picture's ouroboros-style ending.
|
|
It's like a climate change ouroboros with more fossil fuels being burned in order to avoid the hazards that are likely a byproduct of climate change.
|
|
The "how" of "Real Life" matters less than the way it depicts a sort of melancholy ouroboros, with two people creating a feedback loop of dissatisfaction.
|
|
In the ouroboros of inspiration that was Cline and Spielberg's overlapping visions of the past and future, they hit upon the perfect collaboration for movie magic.
|
|
Mick Management, an artist management firm, partnered with Sony's RCA Records to ship postcards to Ray LaMontagne fans prior to the release of his album Ouroboros.
|
|
It's an ouroboros of bacteria and fungi and you have the opportunity to engage it and likely change our view of these concerns for all time.
|
|
Ouroboros appeared only in select festivals and for a brief window on Mubi this year, and will hopefully become more widely available at some future point.
|
|
Whether a 1527 fortification plan by Albrecht Dürer, or the ouroboros symbol of infinity and death, The Book of Circles embraces every iteration of cyclical design.
|
|
I knew that I wanted to make a film that had sort of an ouroboros quality about a family that's basically eating itself in its grief.
|
|
Did you do research into those more psychological aspects, or into the idea of parents and children creating that sort of ouroboros of pain you mentioned?
|
|
FM (itself a virtual version of a real-world experience, thus continuing the great technology ouroboros) designed for use in bars, clubs, offices and other social experiences.
|
|
Now, because time is a flat circle and Hollywood is an ouroboros, Deadline reports that Fox is planning to adapt the adapted musical as yet another film.
|
|
Although no graphic violence is depicted in "The Ouroboros" (2017), its two subjects symbolically hold the repetitive, looping history of racial violence and police brutality between them.
|
|
But what started as a storyline feud soon turned into a real-life backstage rivalry, which would in turn feed the storyline conflict—a pro-wrestling ouroboros.
|
|
Their linked arms wind around one another in the shape of an infinity sign, or an ouroboros, the ancient symbol of a serpent eating its own tail.
|
|
If you're not familiar with Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game, it's one of the best examples of the cultural remake ouroboros in which we're now stuck.
|
|
And so, for an entire afternoon and into the night, the internet was stuck in a crippling ouroboros: Google couldn't fix its cloud, because Google's cloud was broken.
|
|
The project is a charming cultural ouroboros, a nostalgic repackaging of modern films, many of which are sequels, reboots, or homages to the films of the VHS era.
|
|
I whisper this very, very quietly to myself every time I write about the Bearded Ouroboros: This new Father John Misty album will probably be pretty good, actually.
|
|
This is the age of the subscription ouroboros, a constantly renewing cycle of collective (and sometimes shameless) self-sponsorship where everyone can stay in their own loop forever.
|
|
He plays a teacher of a group of students who bring some serious "Stranger Things" energy (including, fittingly, cast member Finn Wolfhard), thus completing the pop culture ouroboros.
|
|
It's an ouroboros of never ending tragedy, the continual rise and fall of kingdoms, the death and hollowing of legends, all delivered through repeating new game plus modes.
|
|
But as the end of the 2010s approaches, reality TV has become an ouroboros, so self-referential and saturated that opportunities for advancement — or growth, or shock — have winnowed.
|
|
That risk is actually revealed in Gucci's new logo, an Ouroboros, which depicts a serpent (one of the brand's most-popular and most enduring symbols) consuming its own tail.
|
|
"In My Own Way" is just one piece of one of the two mammoth songs that make up LaMontagne's new album Ouroboros, but it's perfectly pleasant on its own.
|
|
I felt surrounded by others on the edge of a deep, dark pain—those of us isolated by that indescribable ouroboros, cornered by the conjoined beast of circumstance and choice.
|
|
Ultimately, though, Karlberg presented nothing more than an art world ouroboros, making art of her art world experiences, in a way that everyone could laugh about without seeing themselves implicated.
|
|
The uniqueness of the ouroboros offers a compelling take on the trend fit for the boldest of jewelry boxes, as long as its wearer can handle a touch of darkness.
|
|
"Ouroboros" opens with Flight 462's survivors (Charlie as well as Alex, a preternaturally calm young woman), doing what they have to do to stay alive in a flimsy emergency raft.
|
|
An ouroboros-like rumor of Kennedy's imminent departure also spread through Washington last spring, nourished by Republicans like senators Ted Cruz and Chuck Grassley who repeated it without identifying its origins.
|
|
A towering sculpture by the Nigerian artist Billy Omabegho stands in the small plaza outside the consulate, with zigzagging vertical curves that call to mind chain links or an abstract ouroboros.
|
|
In fact, drama videos are so popular now that the drama channel creators themselves are getting fame, notoriety, drama, and money of their own, leading to one giant beauty drama ouroboros.
|
|
Artist management firm Mick Management, in partnership with Sony's RCA Records, decided to mail out 500 postcards to fans of folk singer Ray LaMontagne, whose new album Ouroboros releases on March 4th.
|
|
While people have been wearing these ancient symbols and motifs since the beginning of time, the totems are seeing even more popularity this season — let us offer the mythological Ouroboros as proof.
|
|
We've noted repeatedly how rising privacy worries have resulted in a notable rise in this kind of fraud as scammers try to cash in on consumer concern, creating an ouroboros of dysfunction.
|
|
You know, New Orleans and the festival of eating the young and also Saturnus about, you know, the father eating his son and ouroboros eating its own tail and that type of theme.
|
|
The deceptions generated a self-perpetuating ouroboros of mistrust: Skeptics dismissed even glaring clues of the Kremlin's guilt, like Russian-language formatting errors in the leaked documents, seeing those giveaways as planted evidence.
|
|
But then, isn't Dating Sunday a sort of ouroboros, driven by our collective desire for love that has been fostered by arbitrary holidays and now is perpetuated by an even more arbitrary day?
|
|
Given the self-perpetuating, ouroboros-like nature of the world of social video applications, it seems likely that Snapchat will presumably have copied the feature to its app by the end of the week.
|
|
If a short film about an internet post about a sitcom sounds like some sort of cultural ouroboros where the snake eats itself and somehow poops out a different, better snake well... it is.
|
|
A divided Congress may be hopelessly tangled in itself like an ouroboros made of old white guys in suits, but a unified Congress is still weaker than either the president or the judicial branch.
|
|
In Season 2, instead of paying homage to the past while telling a new story, the show started paying homage to itself, becoming a self-referential ouroboros of nostalgia that couldn't stop eating its own derivative tail.
|
|
With Ammy Garcia's GIF-y visuals of anime angels and the ever-present Borscht ouroboros (a gator eating a snake eating a gator eating a snake) as a backdrop, the Borscht crew bid their fair festival farewell.
|
|
In another room, two taxidermy alligators bite their own tails, in the classic ouroboros motif; a silent row of fencing masks looks on, some adorned in feathers or beads, while spears decorated with horsehair line the wall.
|
|
Her red manicured hands rest on a crystal ball, displaying an eclectic mix of pieces including "Gucci Ouroboros, GG Running, and Le Marché des Merveilles fine [jewelry] collections, and the G-Frame and G-Timeless timepieces," WWD reports.
|
|
Throw it (or a similar program) into the mix, you could end up with a franchise ouroboros: writers eternally churning out Amazon fan fiction for their favorite Amazon TV series, and directors processing it into spinoff after spinoff.
|
|
Some people—myself included—are undoubtedly kinda tired of it, judging by all the reaction GIFs in the replies, and yet, here we are, stuck in a sick ouroboros of brands and outrage, giving IHOP another write-up.
|
|
Eventually, in its offseason, The Bachelor became a self-sustaining, sexist ouroboros of sorts, parlaying some of its rejected women into The Bachelorette, a show where the roles were reversed and one woman was pursued by several men.
|
|
This particular cocktail has been Worm Ouroboros' favored poison since the band's inception, but What Graceless Dawn is their crowning glory—their strongest and most intoxicating offering to date, and one of the year's most ethereally gorgeous recordings besides.
|
|
The relationship between the destinations that want to maximize time-on-site and the users who will do anything to avoid being bored could be described as a feedback loop, but on most days it better resembles a turd ouroboros.
|
|
Trial & Error is a good-natured ouroboros, or a demented game of telephone; starting with the baseline of the true-crime drama, it's only reacting to — consuming — itself, with each new episode spitting out a heightened version of what came before.
|
|
So what better fix than to slap a slick veneer of tech over basic banking services, push the ouroboros paycheck cycle up by a couple of days, offer some basic budgeting tools, and call it a revolution in consumer banking?
|
|
Wenger's life in football has come to resemble the ouroboros at this point; he is a snake eating his own tail, a metaphor for human cyclicality, a symbol of the eternal repetition of the universe, of existence, of reality itself.
|
|
And because all of them involve some element of time travel—generally a sentient AI system sending back a Terminator to kill the human that would eventually overthrow the machines—the canonical timeline looks something like an ouroboros Möbius strip.
|
|
Time Warner took a 10 percent stake in the company just last year, meaning that Hulu paying companies like ABC and Fox and NBC and TNT for access to their live programming is nothing more than a great big corporate ouroboros.
|
|
But unlike past projects that attempt to attain complete self-sustainability — architect Dennis Holloway's 1970s, land-based Ouroboros Project particularly comes to mind here — Mattingly has not envisioned "WetLand" to be a fully autonomous home independent of the outside world.
|
|
Reddit has yet to turn up any cheat codes for the movie, but given the episode's video game theme, its openly meta storyline, and the self-referential ouroboros of an interactive story about a man trying to design an interactive story, who knows?
|
|
There's a ring of Daniel Bryan's push to this, a sense that WWE knows that we know something is wrong, that they won't change it but maybe are anyway, until it becomes an ouroboros of petty corporate politics and locker room backstabbing.
|
|
Elsewhere, things get more literal — silhouettes of pebbles lined up like the vertebrae of a knobby spine; flashes of light bouncing off shelf-like planes; and a stylized ouroboros, whose alchemical redolence dates back to ancient Egypt, signaling the artworks' subterranean historicism.
|
|
The Riverdale castm in particular, is a kind of pop culture ouroboros, as the show itself it swathed in current references, but the cast revels in '00s nostalgia, starting with the appearance of one of the decade's true child stars, Cole Sprouse, in the cast.
|
|
As long as he remains trapped in the void, the Outsider's role is to balance and counteract the levers of power; to lend his gifts even as the Abbey tries to remove all traces of them, in a kind of long and destructive ouroboros.
|
|
The money manager pointed out the worrying implications of just $3bn of Vix-linked ETNs causing such market mayhem, highlighting how volatility had morphed from a proxy of risk into an input for risk — comparing it to the tail-eating ouroboros snake of Greek mythology.
|
|
Either way, after eating—healthily—or buying a flotation device (unbranded), they will climb back into the metaphor with the rest, back into this watery Ouroboros, which, unlike the river of Heraclitus, is always the same no matter where you happen to step in it.
|
|
I find myself thinking again about chimera, ouroboros, the electronic music priestess in the church, and a host of water nymphs, and think that, much like Aitken's Mirage, art can only be as good as what is there to be reflected in the first place.
|
|
She noted that both she and Ms. Panetta studied ballet, helping to explain the prominence of dance in the exhibition, which includes Madeline Hollander's site-specific "Ouroboros: Gs," exploring the ways in which the Whitney has had to adapt in the face of climate change.
|
|
" The complaint adds: "At heart, this interest-free loan system — unbeknownst to the collectors — is less about creating timeless works of art and more about creating an ouroboros by which Defendants maintain a never-depleting source of funds at the expense of eager and trusting collectors.
|
|
Throwing the ouroboros of 21st-century economics into sharp relief, the partnership was established in 2016 to sell Walmart's China-made, U.S.-branded products to Chinese consumers through JD.com's online marketplace and by setting up electronics showrooms hawking JD.com's tech wares in Walmart locations throughout China.
|
|
"The serpent is a symbol of mythological importance in almost every ancient culture: it symbolizes power, fertility, transformation, and protection," says jeweler Erica Weiner, who channeled the regenerative force of her own ouroboros ring even during childbirth despite warnings that it might need to be cut off (it wasn't).
|
|
He helped an iconoclastic Army lieutenant colonel and Green Beret named Jason Amerine blow the whistle on the messed-up state of the American hostage-recovery process, a bureaucratic Ouroboros that found a National Security Council representative threatening Kayla Mueller's parents with the FBI while their daughter was still an Islamic State hostage.
|
|
As it moves into more of a business service role, the company may find itself butting heads against office management services like Eden or Managed by Q. It's also a tacit acknowledgement of just how crowded services-for-services has become (and yes the ouroboros of the absurdity contained in the previous statement isn't lost on me).
|
|
The elegant circularity of the ouroboros imitates the continual rhythm of the universe, and its association with eternal love has made it a popularly used design in mourning jewelry from the late 1700s throughout the 19th century (consider this Georgian enameled option on Weiner's site, which has an actual lock of human hair preserved below the snake's orbiting underbelly).
|
|
The more brutal the war becomes for Chester, the closer he senses Yuko getting in her global pursuit of him; but Infamy, at least in its first six episodes, doesn't do much work to explore why a spurned woman, a young, lonely social pariah of unknown background, is the nexus around which its metaphorical ouroboros of past and present infamy must spin.
|
|
The clues feel a little easy for experienced NYT solvers, but the grid is my usual style, I think: a little movies/pop (KAZAAM), a little ancient (OUROBOROS), some history, politics and world culture (ZAPATISTA, HEBREW CALENDAR), a little science (MUCOUS MEMBRANE), a helping of scandal (the SCARSDALE diet), and plenty of food (EXTRA FRIES or, if you prefer, KALE SALAD).
|
|
Going in with preconceived notions about the event I'm supposed to be reviewing probably makes me a bad critic, but honestly, find me the critic who doesn't roll their eyes at the newest festival on the market; the modern music industry is a diseased ouroboros where festival bookers pay top dollar for the artists with the largest streaming numbers and playlist curators give precedence to the artists with the biggest font size on the poster.
|
|
When she felt it was necessary, she would incorporate the ouroboros and two human figures, as in the painting "Group VI, Evolution, No. 13" (1908), or a spectrally sectioned pyramid leading to a multi-pointed orb, as in "Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece" (1915), or different squares of color, each paired with a word or containing a symbolic image, as in the watercolors that constitute two of the groups from The Parsifal Series (1916).
|
|
Anyone focusing too much on the plot, though, will miss the trees for the woods, because the real draw of this shamelessly performative experimental fiction is the endless metaphysical abyss of Krasznahorkai's prose: uninterrupted stream-of-consciousness passages that last for chapters with no breaks of any kind, ruminate simultaneously on the cosmic and the mundane, and fold endlessly onto themselves in a hopeless existential ouroboros, perpetually advancing and retreating before the impossibility of grasping the self and the universe.
|
|