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Racism is not only the preserve of the dispossessed

Edit The Guardian 30 Jun 2016
The speed with which it happened was the first clue that it was there all along, lying in wait. We went to sleep last Thursday and awoke in a country where racist graffiti, racial slurs and race-related violence is a daily occurrence ... Related ... Miqdaad Versi ... Xenophobia is not a subtle creature ... A brown Muslim mayor was elected and 40% of the population is not white, but this vibrant cosmopolitanism co-exists with a fierce hermeticism ... ....

The Strange World Of... Sunburned Hand Of The Man

Edit The Quietus 23 Mar 2016
Freewheeling, wild and groove propelled to No Neck’s mysterious cult-like, abstract hermeticism, Sunburned at their best were capable of taking the listener on a shamanic, boogie-fuelled trip outside of quotidian reality ... From Shit Spangled Banner To Sunburned Hand ....

Review of the Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Witchcraft & Practical Magic

Edit The Examiner 15 Feb 2016
The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Witchcraft & Practical Magic by Susan Greenwood and Raje Airey ... It does not cover Hermeticism enough though, and it's contribution to modern traditions of magic. (Literally, almost every modern and popular magical tradition has its origins in Hermeticism.) However, it does take extreme care in it's presentations not to push any one view and to show different sides and beliefs ... Conclusion ... ....

Dugin’s Occult Fascism and the hijacking of Left Anti-Imperialism and Muslim Anti-Salafism

Edit CounterPunch 10 Feb 2016
Eurasian Thunderbolt flag. In his September 2015 CounterPunch piece, “,” Alexander Reid Ross highlighted the state of the Fascist Internationale in recent times, underscoring the role of Russian fascist and Fourth Position theorist Alexander Dugin and his networks in it ... Whither Dugin’s Traditionalism? ... 1951) and the Italian Julius Evola (d ... Taoist, Sufi, Tantric, Zen, Hermeticism, etc.), and in and of itself it is neutral ... ....

Delving Into The Shadowy World Of Occult Art

Edit Huffington Post 27 Jan 2016
"The word occult simply means hidden," curator and writer Pam Grossman explained to The Huffington Post. Grossman is the curator of "Language of the Birds," an exhibition now on view at New York University's 80WSE Gallery ... "They are often pulling from a similar box of influences -- Kabbalah, alchemy, hermeticism, Tarot -- pulling on threads from different mystery schools and mystic and mythical systems."  ... In Grossman's words....

'Language of the Birds' at 80WSE Gallery Showcases Best in Esoteric Art (NYU - New ...

Edit Public Technologies 04 Jan 2016
(Source. NYU - New York University). In mythology and literature, the 'language of the birds' is a magical language by which only the initiated can speak, birds communicate with the initiated, revealing secret truths and causing transformations. Language of the Birds ... one that pulls on threads from the esoteric web of alchemy, Hermeticism, Spiritualism, Theosophy, divination and witchcraft ... Weds, Jan 27, 7 p.m. ... Fri, Feb 5 - Sun, Feb 7....

Now that the Beatles are streaming, digital has won — but so has live music

Edit New York Post 31 Dec 2015
One of the most important events of the year took place quietly on Christmas Day ... This tolls a (long-approaching) symbolic end to the concept of music as a physical commodity to be bought and sold ... Realize ... Such studio hermeticism was exceedingly rare from working artists — the British group XTC was another that managed the same trick on a smaller scale during the 80s — and is now impossible in the current online “free is best” economy....

Shlomo Sand: ‘I Wish to Resign and Cease Considering Myself a Jew’

Edit Information Clearing House 20 Oct 2015
His past was Jewish, but today he sees Israel as one of the most racist societies in the western world ... By Shlomo Sand ... To consolidate this republican political potential, it would be necessary, of course, to have long abandoned tribal hermeticism, to learn to respect the Other and welcome him or her as an equal, and to change the constitutional laws of Israel to make them compatible with democratic principles ...  . Donate.  ....

Conversation With Deradoorian

Edit Huffington Post 19 Aug 2015
In keeping with my recent discussions with interesting people, I had the pleasure of chatting up Angel Deradoorian in McCarren Park, here in the epicenter of hip Brooklyn last week. Below is an excerpt for Huffington Post with the full interview to be published at a later date in a collection of "Conversations," which I'm assembling into book form ... Enjoy... photo by Bennett Perez. MN ... AD ... MN ... Not totally, but it does give basic hermeticism....

Detroit satanic statue: Goat head statue in tribute to Satan revealed in Detroit

Edit The Examiner 27 Jul 2015
A satanic statue has been revealed in Detroit at a private location Saturday ... Writes Fox News ... The goat on the frontispiece carries the sign of the pentagram on the forehead, with one point at the top, a symbol of light, his two hands forming the sign of Hermeticism, the one pointing up to the white moon of Chesed, the other pointing down to the black one of Geburah. This sign expresses the perfect harmony of mercy with justice ... “....

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time review – financial value sadly trumps artistic merit

Edit The Guardian 19 Feb 2015
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. The artist died aged 27 and his best work still excites; but in burnishing the legend, and even revealing the prices his paintings sold for, this show risks trivialising the art ... Photograph ... Now’s the Time wants to make the case for Basquiat’s place in art history, and I wish it had done so more through an engagement with his innovations, his debts and the uses of his hermeticism and inscrutability ... ....

What Do Blank Paintings Mean, Starting With Yves Klein

Edit Huffington Post 17 Sep 2014
He explained ... Secondly, Klein was deeply engaged with various philosophies and religious traditions, including Eastern philosophies, Zen Buddhism, Catholicism and Rosicrucianism, an international brotherhood which combines religious practices and beliefs from Hermeticism, Christian Gnosticism and Jewish mysticism and claims that it has secret wisdom that has been handed down to them since ancient times ... *** ... . ... Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967)....

Justin, Etc. and Jason Schenheit: How collective aided poet

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 28 May 2014
Justin, Etc. and Jason Schenheit met through the creative writing department of San Francisco State University, though they never had a class together. The two found themselves in an amoebic group of students who met in bars and cafes ... I took it serious enough. I did the work ... It seemed to work ... said ... see what goes where ... Etc ... When asked how his self-admitted proclivities toward hermeticism intersected with the collective process, he said....
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