Brian Francis Culkin is a writer, theorist, and film director with a reputation for delivering thought provoking political & social commentary. He is the author of Postscript on Boxing, a book that chronicles and comments upon the simultaneous collapse of the industrial economy and the sport of boxing in response to the rise of the networked economy and globalization, There is no such thing as Boston, a deeply reflective meditation on contemporary urban gentrification in both Boston and the world and Conversations on Gentrification, a further exploration of gentrification as both an urban fact and as a concept that helps to explain the nature of 21st century life. Brian lives in Massachusetts, USA.