About Darren Allen
An Introduction
What you can expect to find here
First and foremost, I write books. This Substack has various extracts from those books, some original material and a fair number of casual reflections, but if you are interested in my work, the best of it is all here:
Expressive Egg Books
My non-fiction covers a wide sweep of experience, from an original perspective, which I call panjective primalism.
By panjective I mean the truth, which is neither a form of subjectivism (what today we usually understand as ‘postmodernism’, or, seen from another angle, ‘superstition’ or ‘idealism’) nor of objectivism (which is to say the civilised religion of ‘rationalism’, ‘materialism’ or, for many people, of ‘common sense’).
By primalist I am referring to a kind of anarchism which is outside the coordinates of civilised political thought, and so neither left-wing (e. g. socialist and democratic) nor right-wing (e.