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LEPHT HAND
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.
Episodes
52 episodes
Brain Rot and Capitalism: Amogh Sahu on Social Media, Desire & the Death of the Event
Is Everything Predictable?: AI, Prediction Markets, and the Philosophy of Foresight: https://www.index-space.org/programming/is-everything-predictable-ai-prediction-markets-and-the-philosop-evt-xnCQQKMg0qG8SnkAcid Horizon Research Common...
The Selfie That Wasn't: On Projection, Spirituality, and Knowledge of Other Minds
The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/Acid Horizon Research Commons Ongoing Courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesCan something as ordinary as a selfie crack open a window onto the ...
Does Psyche Matter? Jung and the Unconscious in 2026 — AHRC Public Panel (Audio)
The fall season of AHRC courses begins next week. Enroll in two classes and get a third free with code 3FOR2FALL2026. Bob Langan's Jung and Spinoza: God, Affect, Destiny, beginning October 4th:
Was Adorno Right (and Wrong) About Astrology? Irrationality, Imagination, and Epistemic Flight from Normalizing Power
Is astrology a harmless distraction or a pseudo-science opening a path to fascism? Or can it help us reclaim an imagination lost to the hyper-rationalism of modernity? In this episode, Sereptie and Emma trace the gendered and racialized dynamic...
Scandal, Shadow, and the Underworld: Where the Symbolic Meets the Political
Listen to the full episode here: Enroll in Bob...
AI as Anti-Politics: Daniel Stanley on Technopopulism, Data, and Rebuilding Collective Power
Enroll at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesIs AI really the threat to democracy we've been told it is, or is it just democracy's own rot wearing a new face? Daniel Stanley of the Future Narratives Lab joins us ...
*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Attention Fracking: How Big Tech Steals Your Mind with Henry Kramer
Emma's class on anti-civilization thought begins in August 2026: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/anti-civiliza...
Sacred Science vs. the Machine: Nasr on Nature, Technology & Modernity
Find Emma's course here: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesWhat if modernity's greatest crime isn't economic or political, but spiritual, a severing of humanity from the sacred language written into nature itself? In this ep...
How Can We Build Solidarity With Children? with Madeline Lane-McKinley
AHRC EVENTS: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/previous-courses-1Buy Madeline's book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-solidarity-with-childrenWe live in a world that is profoundly against children—evident in the genoc...
Logging Off, Opting Out, and Not Texting Back: The Ethics of Non-Response with Jana Bacevic
Enroll at AHRC Summer School 2026: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesWhat 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 philosophy of a soc...
Prog Rock, Politics, and the Pathos of Distance: Is Progressive Music Elitist or Revolutionary?
AHRC Summer School: www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesVintagia is back! www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/vintagia-b...
The PBS Unconscious: Childhood Wonder, Nostalgia, and the Collapse of Shared American Culture
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 Corduroy Psychedelia:...
Deleuze, Drugs, and Death: Psychedelic Thanatology at the End of Life
Enroll in classes now: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesWhat if the psychedelic revolution in end-of-life care is less a liberation from the medicalization of death than its most seductive intensification? In this crossover...
Can Machines Imagine? Fabian Offert on AI, Images, and 'Vector Media'
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 book Vector Media...
Love Breaks This World: Power and Politics in Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold (Ring Cycle) with Phil Ford
Access Emma's archived course, enroll in Stuart's new course, and discover more: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-mainWhat happens when love is absent from the stage, yet remains the hidden force driving every act of power and bet...
From Weird Academia to Acid Communism: Meta-Politics, Community, and Holding Space for the Humanities
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, interdisciplinary research, and the “cl...
Deleuze and Simondon on Psychedelic Experience: Individuation and Immanent Spirituality with Aragorn Eloff
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 and computational theor...
Philosophy After Academia: Public Thought, Digital Media, and the Attention Economy with Craig and Emma
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/qny873rafa9ibhcyj2t2x1cwsuvtlnIn this episode, Craig is joined by...
AHRC 2026: A Brief Hiatus & A Reflection on Vattimo’s “Beyond the Subject
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 retreat, as both LEPHT H...
Socialism, Spirituality and the Forgotten Occult Roots of the Left with Graham Jones
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 Socialism a...
Why Rationalism Fails: Excess, Variation, and Ontogenesis as First Philosophy (with Timothy Jackson)
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, Deleuze, and Bataille, challen...
Bergson and Weird Philosophy: JF Martel on Time, Subjectivity, and Weirding Realism
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 Deleuze’s philosophy of beco...
Writing as Exorcism: Dreams and Dissolution in the Work of Henri Michaux (with Garett Strickland)
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 both scalpel and ...
The Body Without Organs: Artaud’s Last Writings with Stephen Barber
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 concept of the “body without ...
Myth, Nostalgia, and Liberation: Federico Campagna’s 'Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History'
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, solidarity, and survival...
