James Curcio
James Curcio is a transmedia artist and writer best known for exploring the intersections of myth, philosophy, and media. Among extensive art and media credits, he is the author of Join My Cult! , Party at the World's End, a mythpunk take on The Bacchae in an age of anonymity and rock stars, and the non-fiction, Narrative Machines: Modern Myth, Revolution & Propaganda.
Current projects include Tales From When I Had A Face, an illustrated existential fairy-tale, and BLACKOUT, a dark Futurist-Lovecraftian webcomic. Masks: Bowie and Artists of Artifice, an interdisciplinary anthology begun shortly after Bowie's death, was published by Intellect Books in January 2020. He is the editor of ModernMythology.net.
“All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.”
James Curcio
“While we advance exponentially in technological capability, our spiritual or 'biological technology,' our maturity as a species, is still two or three thousand years in the past. This is because many of us live according to ideas that were original and groundbreaking... in 500 B.C. Most people are unwilling or unable to ask the hard questions- as in, why do we do things the way we do, and what will the end results be?" (p.120) Generation Hex”
James Curcio