Bøger af Brian Francis Culkin

After losing his job, Michael Barre takes temporary work at a bakery to which he has a distant family relation. What follows is a story about technology, the absence of community, and the recovery of lost roots in the context of hypermodern America. Bread is a play about the struggle to maintain our humanity in a world that is increasingly set against it.

An introduction to the thought and writing of Brian Francis Culkin.Brian Francis Culkin is a writer, theorist, and film director.He has written extensively about topics ranging from contemporary urban gentrification to the history of boxing; the Presidency of Donald Trump to an analysis of 21st century capitalism; heroin addiction in American society to the culture of Boston, Massachusetts; the ideology of neoliberal globalization, Amazonian plant medicine, and contemporary cinema. His books include The Meaning of Trump; Postscript on Boxing; There is No Such Thing as Boston; Conversations on Gentrification; On Heroin; Spontaneous Reflections; Hypermodernity and the End of the World; The Ayahuasca Dialogues; Notes on a Method; Boxing and Cinema; and his forthcoming first novel - Into the Jungle.He has also written and directed three films, including the feature length documentary The Mission and the short film, Now, Passage. He is a graduate of Skidmore College in New York where he was a standout student-athlete, graduating as the all time leading scorer in the history of the basketball program before briefly playing professionally in Europe. He currently lives between Iquitos, Peru and Boston, Massachusetts.His website is www.brianculkin.com

The Ayahuasca Dialogues is a transcribed collection of conversations between Ricardo Amaringo and Brian Francis Culkin. This dynamic and compelling discussion engages topics diverse as Shipibo cosmology, the structure of contemporary capitalism, digital technologies, trauma, globalization, and the future of humanity. Why are psychedelic culture and plant-based medicines like ayahuasca having a revival in the second decade of the 21st century? Why are educated Westerners suddenly trekking into the Amazon jungle searching for healing and meaning in their lives? How are the new forms of networked technologies radically transforming human consciousness in the present day? Why is ayahuasca so effective in treating PTSD, depression, and addiction? These are just some of the questions that this dialogue wrestles with. From familiar themes in shamanism to the pressing sociocultural issues of our now interconnected planetary society, these talks between a revered shaman of the Upper Peruvian Amazon and a young American writer provide a unique insight into the state of the contemporary world. The Ayahuasca Dialogues is a riveting and thought-provoking conversation that explores the emergent relationship between the powerful plant medicine of ayahuasca, Amazonian shamanism, and a rapidly globalizing world.

Fragments of Boston is a series of short essays, fragments, and interventions written by Brian Francis Culkin between 2015-2019 about contemporary gentrification, both as a global phenomenon, and how it has specifically effected the city of Boston, Massachusetts.

This is not a book only to read, but rather a book to watch. Accompanying this book is a series of video essays, collages of image and spoken word that attempt to further bring out the meaning of what has been written. An experimental text, Video Essays is an attempt to somehow link our Guttenbergian past with the new media environment of our present moment.

The crisis of heroin addiction has become a full blown epidemic in contemporary American society and it is perhaps best articulated as the emblematic pathology of neoliberal globalization. But today, heroin addiction can no longer be reduced to the singular addict. It must also be seen as a collective sickness that references the ongoing collapse of community, the infiltration of technology into our public and biological spaces, as well as the psychological devastation experienced by countless Americans in the 21st century. What follows is a new cognitive map of this crisis, tracing its roots to both the ideological and material power of global capitalism.

An ideological critique of Donald Trump's Presidential election. What is the meaning of Trump?