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:

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Expressive Egg Books

Darren Allen
June 18, 2023
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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.g. authoritarian and capitalist) and so, despite the mind’s craving for labels and the ego’s thirst to co-opt the freedom that primal anarchism represents, impossible to categorise.

It’s very simple though really, as I explain in my introductory podcast…

The System and the Self, 1

Darren Allen March 25, 2023 Read full story

Here are twelve of my most popular essays on this site:

Man and Woman

Darren Allen·November 12, 2024Read full story

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The Technological System

Darren Allen·February 11, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/the-technological-system)

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I am Security

Darren Allen·July 1, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/i-am-security)

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The Collapse

Darren Allen·February 13, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/it-really-doesnt-matter)

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Hell No

Darren Allen·October 7, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/a-literal-hell-on-earth)

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The Illusions of Abstract Philosophy

Darren Allen·September 20, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/the-illusions-of-abstract-philosophy)

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The Mechanical Marx

Darren Allen·November 3, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/goodbye-marx)

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The Primal Way

Darren Allen·September 1, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/the-primal-way)

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Anarchism at the End of the World

Darren Allen·January 15, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/anarchism-at-the-end-of-the-world)

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Postcard from the Void

Darren Allen·April 2, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/postcard-from-the-void)

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The Truth About The Truth About Primitive Life

Darren Allen·September 6, 2023Read full story](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/the-woods)

A few things you won’t find here. I am not a nice man; I’m a friendly chap, and I love many things, but striving to be likeable is death for the writer. I don’t pander to mass ideology (I argue, for example, that video games are not art, that love is not an emotion, that feminism is a betrayal of femininity and that democracy is tyrannous). I don’t comment much on current affairs because I consider the news a rarefied form of pornography.

I don’t [usually¹] have comments turned on, because I find that managing digital ‘participation’ is a drain on my time and kills my spirit, but you can drop me a line if you have something to say. Please, if you do, introduce yourself a bit (just a bit) and please use your real name, because, being an ordinary flesh-and-blood human being, I find anonymity unpleasant and disconcerting. And if you’d like to criticise me, that’s fine, but read this before complaining about anything.

Thassal. Thank you for reading.

Low bows,

Darren Allen