Welcome to LEPHT HAND — a channel for immersive philosophy, psychology, and politics. Created by Sereptie (Craig) from the Acid Horizon podcast, this channel is your gateway to informative essays, thought-provoking videos, and exclusive content from Sereptie's interdisciplinary coursework . Thank you for subscribing.
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SEREPTIE hosts LEPHT HAND, a society show with 45 episodes published.
Sacred Science vs. the Machine: Nasr on Nature, Technology & Modernity
Jun 22, 202632m
Find Emma's course here: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What if modernity's greatest crime isn't economic or political, but spiritual, a severing of humanity from the sacred language written into nature
How Can We Build Solidarity With Children? with Madeline Lane-McKinley
May 30, 20261h 8m0
AHRC EVENTS: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/previous-courses-1 Buy Madeline's book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-solidarity-with-children We live in a world that is profoundly against children—evident in
Logging Off, Opting Out, and Not Texting Back: The Ethics of Non-Response with Jana Bacevic
May 17, 20261h 35m0
Enroll at AHRC Summer School 2026: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What if you don't owe anyone anything? Not your attention, not your care, not even a reply to their message? That might sound like the ph
Prog Rock, Politics, and the Pathos of Distance: Is Progressive Music Elitist or Revolutionary?
May 5, 20261h 22m0
AHRC Summer School: www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Vintagia is back! www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/vintagia-basecamp What does it mean that the music most associated with wizards, capes, and sixteen keyboards also
The PBS Unconscious: Childhood Wonder, Nostalgia, and the Collapse of Shared American Culture
Apr 27, 20261h 42m0
What happens to a generation raised on the civic idealism of public broadcasting when the world it promised never arrives? In this episode, Sereptie is joined by Emma Stamm and Bob Langan to unpack his recent blog post C
Deleuze, Drugs, and Death: Psychedelic Thanatology at the End of Life
Mar 31, 20261h 9m0
Enroll in classes now: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What if the psychedelic revolution in end-of-life care is less a liberation from the medicalization of death than its most seductive intensification?
Can Machines Imagine? Fabian Offert on AI, Images, and 'Vector Media'
Mar 8, 20261h 6m0
Can machines imagine, or do they merely recombine the vast archive of images and language we have already produced? In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Emma Stamm and Sereptie speak with Fabian Offert about his forthcoming bo
Love Breaks This World: Power and Politics in Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold (Ring Cycle) with Phil Ford
Feb 13, 20261h 13m0
Access Emma's archived course, enroll in Stuart's new course, and discover more: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main What happens when love is absent from the stage, yet remains the hidden force driving every ac
From Weird Academia to Acid Communism: Meta-Politics, Community, and Holding Space for the Humanities
Feb 7, 20261h 15m0
Emma and Sereptie debrief the 'Weird Academia' conference in Bloomington, Indiana, reflecting on what it means to make space for the strange within and beyond the academy. We explore animal consciousness, interdisciplina
Deleuze and Simondon on Psychedelic Experience: Individuation and Immanent Spirituality with Aragorn Eloff
Jan 13, 20261h 36m0
In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Emma leads a conversation with Aragorn Eloff on psychedelic experience through the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Gilbert Simondon, set against contemporary debates in cognitive science
Philosophy After Academia: Public Thought, Digital Media, and the Attention Economy with Craig and Emma
Jan 5, 20261h 25m0
Check out Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Join Emma for 'Acid Communism: A World That Could Free': https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/2026-classes/p/qny873rafa9ibhcyj2t2x1cwsuvtln In this episode, Craig
AHRC 2026: A Brief Hiatus & A Reflection on Vattimo’s “Beyond the Subject
Dec 13, 202534m0
In this end-of-year installment, we’re sharing a conversation originally released on LEPHT HAND as we take a rare and well-earned brief hiatus from regular publishing. This pause marks a moment of transition rather than
Socialism, Spirituality and the Forgotten Occult Roots of the Left with Graham Jones
Nov 28, 20251h 22m0
Can a genuinely liberatory politics survive without mystery, imagination, or the spiritual experiences that give life its depth? Sereptie speaks with Graham Jones about Jacobin’s article “The Forgotten History of Sociali
Why Rationalism Fails: Excess, Variation, and Ontogenesis as First Philosophy (with Timothy Jackson)
Nov 16, 20251h 22m0
What happens when the very logic we rely on to understand the world becomes the barrier to understanding it? In this episode, Timothy Jackson joins us to rethink rationalism through the lenses of Darwin, Simondon, Deleuz
Bergson and Weird Philosophy: JF Martel on Time, Subjectivity, and Weirding Realism
Nov 2, 20251h 21m0
Have you ever felt reality glitch, as though the weird was peeking through the cracks of time or the Real? In this episode of LEPHT HAND, JF Martel joins to explore how Henri Bergson’s concept of duration and Gilles Dele
Writing as Exorcism: Dreams and Dissolution in the Work of Henri Michaux (with Garett Strickland)
Oct 19, 20251h 6m0
Subscribe to LEPHT HAND for early access to episodes! Henri Michaux wrote as if to exorcise himself from existence. His poetry and prose traverse dream, delirium, and the slow undoing of identity, where language becomes
The Body Without Organs: Artaud’s Last Writings with Stephen Barber
Sep 26, 20251h 6m0
What does it mean to imagine a body freed from its organs, its history, and its limits? In his final writings, Antonin Artaud turned against Christ, psychiatry, sexuality, and language itself, while elaborating the conce
Myth, Nostalgia, and Liberation: Federico Campagna’s 'Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History'
Aug 23, 20251h 8m0
Can myth itself serve as a material force in struggles for liberation? Federico Campagna joins me to discuss how myth—too often dismissed as escapism or co-opted by reaction—can instead become a practice of imagination,
Gilgamesh: The Oldest Story Ever Told and Why It Still Haunts Us Today (with Stuart Kendall)
Aug 10, 20251h 34m0
What ancient tale speaks of gods, grief, and the fall of heroes? In this episode, we descend into the dream-temple of Gilgamesh, guided by translator Stuart Kendall. We explore the epic’s broken verses, divine laments, a
Undoing the Myth of the Father: Freud, Feminism, and the Symbolic Violence of Western Thought
Aug 2, 20251h 17m0
What do ancient myths reveal about our unconscious fantasies of power, gender, and identity? In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Jessica Elbert Decker, author of Motherless Daughters and Female Monsters, joins us to explore t
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