An Essay on Cancel Culture

What is Cancel Culture? How does it operate within 21st century American and global society? For Brian Francis Culkin, far from being new, cancel culture is simply the contemporary iteration of basic sacrificial logic that we find operative throughout human history. Drawing on the anthropology of Rene Girard, the playwright Henrik Ibsen, and a series of examples in our current cultural atmosphere, An Essay on Cancel Culture is a short but powerful excavation of a contemporary phenomenon.

Brian Francis Culkin is a writer, playwright, cultural theorist, and filmmaker based in Iquitos, Peru. His website is www.brianculkin.com