Vicious circle

Vicious circle may refer to:

• Virtuous circle and vicious circle, a complex of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop toward greater instability; some examples:
  • Begging the question, a kind of logical fallacy
  • Positive feedback, in science
  • Thermal runaway, in electronics
  • Cycle of violence

Music

• Vicious Circle (music label), a Hard Dance music label
• Vicious Circle (hip hop band), UK rap duo
• Vicious Circle (drum and bass group), UK drum and bass group
• Vicious Circle (L.A. Guns album), a 1995 album by L.A. Guns
• Vicious Circle (Zero Boys album), 1982 record by Zero Boys
• Vicious Circle, a punk rock band whose members later formed T.S.O.L.
• "Vicious Circle", a 1989 album by the British punk band, The Vibrators
• "Vicious Circle", a 1981 single by the British punk band, Abrasive Wheels
• "Vicious Circle", a song by Lou Reed from the 1976 album Rock and Roll Heart
• "Vicious Circle", a song by Quiet Riot from their 2001 album Guilty Pleasures
• "Vicious Circles", a song by Aaron Lewis from his 2011 solo-album Town Line

Film

• The Vicious Circle (1948 film), starring Conrad Nagel
• The Vicious Circle (1957 film), starring John Mills
• Vicious Circle (2008 film), a 2008 drama film by Paul Boyd
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
  • Algonquin Round Table, whose members referred to themselves as "the Vicious Circle"

Television

• "Vicious Circle", a Season 2 (1957) episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents starring Dick York
• Dane Cook: Vicious Circle, an HBO comedy special featuring Dane Cook

Other

• Vicious Circle (comics), a fictional character group from the Savage Dragon comic book series
• Vicious Cycle Software, a company

See also

• Vicious Cycle (album), 2003 album by Lynyrd Skynyrd