Brian Francis Culkin

Brian Francis Culkin is a writer, cultural theorist, playwright, film director, and humanistic astrologer.

Prior to being fully committed to developing his craft as a writer, filmmaker, and artist, Brian graduated from Skidmore College where he was a standout student-athlete. After breaking every scoring record in the school's history, with nearly 1800 points and national accolades, he played professional basketball in Europe for a year after graduation.

In terms of writing, Brian 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 global capitalism; heroin addiction in modern American society to the cultural development of Boston, Massachusetts; the ideology of neoliberal globalization to Amazonian plant medicine; contemporary cinema to astrology.

His books include The Meaning of Trump, Postscript on Boxing, There is No Such Thing as Boston, Conversations on Gentrification, On Heroin, Spontaneous Reflections, The Ayahuasca Dialogues, Hypermodernity and the End of the World, The Brian Francis Culkin Reader, Boxing and Cinema, Bread (a Play), Fragments of Boston, The Phone Thief, Rene Girard and COVID-19, An Essay on Cancel Culture, Spontaneous Reflections Volume II, An Iquitos Story, Archetypes and Processes (2025), Studies in Symbolic Astrology (2024), and Two Essays on Astrology (2024).

He has written and directed three films, including the feature length documentary The Mission, the documentary short Voices, and the short film, Now, Passage.

He addition maintains the site astro-theory com where he provides consultations for a global clientele.

A fluent Spanish speaker, Brian lives and works in the city of Iquitos, Peru - surrounded by the Amazon Rainforest.

His personal website is brianculkin com