M. Curtis Allen is a philosopher and theorist primarily interested in 19th, 20th, and 21st century philosophy of language/mind, metaphysics, and social ontology (across the analytic and continental traditions) and their relation to the structure of late modern social practices and cultural production, especially in terms of political economy, art, literature, media, and technology. He is also interested in the philosophical and cultural consequences of computation and the Black radical tradition.

He currently teaches at Huron and OCAD Universities. He has recently completed doctoral work under the title The Metaphysics of Modernism and the Aesthetics of Reason in Wittgenstein, Deleuze, and Others. This work elaborates a theory of the genesis of sense in Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gilles Deleuze—with help from Kant, Peirce, Frege, Marx, and Robert Brandom, among others—as it comes into contact with recent problems from across the theoretical humanities.

 
He was Head Editor of Chiasma: A Site for Thought (2017–2020) and has been/will be published in Haymarket Books (forthcoming), the Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2024), The Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, Open Philosophy, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, and elsewhere.