Brian Francis CulkinRENE GIRARD AND MIMETIC DESIREThe following is the introduction to my own book, “Rene Girard and COVID-19: Satan, Capitalism, Apocalypse.” The book can be ordered here.Feb 6, 2023Feb 6, 2023
Brian Francis CulkinThe Limits of Technology and Spiritual ResistanceWhen does a technological process stop and say, “You know something guys, I think you all have had enough for now, a whole society…Feb 5, 2021Feb 5, 2021
Brian Francis CulkinCode and IcarosIn my view, the two most extreme forms of language on Planet Earth are code and icaros, which are the songs of the ayahuasca shamans in…Feb 4, 2021Feb 4, 2021
Brian Francis CulkinIdeology and PowerIn one of my books I named the four major ideological centers in America that now structure global capitalism in its current state…Nov 8, 2020Nov 8, 2020
Brian Francis CulkinGlobalization and SamenessCapitalist globalization is a process of “becoming Same,” it a planetary process of capturing, not so much bodies, as it is minds, souls…Oct 21, 2020Oct 21, 2020
Brian Francis CulkinNow, PassageThis is a short film I directed a couple of years ago that I just made public this week for the first time.Oct 21, 2020Oct 21, 2020
Brian Francis CulkinClaudia Conway, Donald Trump, and the dangers of pure transparency.I think Claudia Conway, the daughter of Kellyanne Conway who has become a recent TikTok star, is making a very strong case for being the…Oct 8, 2020Oct 8, 2020
Brian Francis CulkinThe Reflexivity of the SwarmWe are fast approaching a point in the intersubjective texture of American life in which if one does not find immediate agreement with…Oct 6, 2020Oct 6, 2020
Brian Francis CulkinTwitter and the SacredThe function of the sacred in indigenous communities and archaic societies across the planet was always the power to keep violence at a…Oct 2, 2020Oct 2, 2020