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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, challenging inherited frameworks across science and metaphysics. We explore variation, excess, and ontogenesis as the forces that precede and destabilize every closed system of explanation. 

To explore more of Timothy’s work, visit his Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vOnot8oAAAAJ&hl=en
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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 becoming invite a radically weird subjectivity, one that consumes rhythms, intensities, and habits across time. We discuss how this non-linear conception of time doesn’t just solve problems but also introduces new ones: what does it mean to be a subject in perpetual flux, and is this mysticism, metaphysics, or simply reality hiding behind a theatre of representation? Be sure to check out Weird Studies and JF's course linked below.

Weirdosphere: https://weirdosphere.mn.co/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The Last of the Last: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/the-last-revelation-acephalous-and

The image: https://ifunny.co/picture/acid-horizon-acidhorizonpod-what-i-saw-hiking-in-the-appalachian-qpGW5TdIA

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(this is a narration only version of a video on the LEPHT HAND Youtube channel)

What if you had to live your life exactly as it is—over and over again, forever? In this video, we dive into Nietzsche’s haunting concept of the eternal return, unpacking its psychological challenge and metaphysical implications. Along the way, we explore how thinkers like Deleuze reinvent the idea as a call to embrace transformation, risk, and becoming. Whether you're into philosophy, myth, or changing your life, this one’s for you.

More on Deleuze's philosophy on Acid Horizon (as seen in the video): https://youtu.be/xJxE-rJKo-s

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What if the self isn’t a fixed unity, but a process unfolding through tension, relation, and transformation? In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Sereptie speaks with evolutionary biologist and philosopher Timothy Jackson about Gilbert Simondon’s essay Form, Information, and Potential. Together, they explore the concept of individuation across biology, depth psychology, and metaphysics—linking snake venom, Jungian archetypes, and the limits of Platonic form. This is a deep dive into transduction, metastability, and the alchemical rhythms of becoming.

Timothy's work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vOnot8oAAAAJ&hl=en

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In this monologue, we reflect on Georges Bataille’s essay “Are We Here to Play or Be Serious?”—recorded off-grid during a spring power outage! The discussion explores Bataille’s critique of work, the concept of sovereignty, and the political and metaphysical stakes of play as a form of resistance. Through readings of potlatch, sacrificial war, and riddle-solving, Sereptie examines Bataille’s call for thought to reconnect with its tragic, sovereign origins. This episode charts a path from the refusal of utility toward a ludic theory of revolution.

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In this special crossover episode of LEPHT HAND and Acid Horizon, we explore the radical mysticism of François Laruelle through his essay Vision-in-One or Unlearned Knowing. Laruelle proposes a mysticism stripped of transcendence and doctrine—one grounded in solitude, immanence, and the irreducibility of lived experience. Our guest, translator Jeremy R. Smith, helps unpack Laruelle’s challenge to Neoplatonism, dialectics, and the pedagogical authority of philosophy. Along the way, we consider how this "unlearned knowing" might offer tools for thinking mysticism on the left, beyond both theology and theory.

Vision-in-One or Unlearned Knowing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-i7-kfCt_ykSxrMrUIeNxLwLKcCzcl3LbSJCR_etVQ/edit?tab=t.0

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Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon

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Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

Sereptie's recent blog piece: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/crossing-the-line-the-repeater-books

In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Sereptie is joined by Christian McMillan from the University of Essex to explore Wolfgang Giegerich’s provocative essay Why Jung?. Together, they investigate the image of soul as a conceptual battleground in post-Jungian thought, where Giegerich’s Hegelian reading of Jung meets Deleuze’s philosophy of individuation. Their dialogue probes whether Jung’s work ultimately resists or reinforces metaphysical closure, especially through his engagements with myth, quantum physics, and active imagination. From the tension between unity and multiplicity to the porous borders of psyche and world, this episode maps a vital terrain where psychology and philosophy entangle.

Jung, Deleuze, and the Problematic Whole: https://www.routledge.com/Jung-Deleuze-and-the-Problematic-Whole/Main-McMillan-Henderson/p/book/9780367428754?srsltid=AfmBOoqe_oY33gzfY-OUNa7-pi-TpZp_NOd2gEHsytljDk-bBnaBR8y_

Support LEPHT HAND:

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Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon

Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/

Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

In this LEPHT HAND interview, I am joined by Devin Gouré of Moral Minority for a deep descent into the world of Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Together, they explore Schreber’s cosmic visions, divine persecution, and the "unmanning" at the heart of his psychosis—not merely as symptoms of mental illness, but as portals into theology, gender, philosophy, and power. Alongside Freud, Lacan, and Deleuze & Guattari, the conversation unpacks the metaphysics of paranoia and the symbolic fractures of modernity. Devin also shares personal reflections on living with psychosis and the stakes of reclaiming madness in an increasingly authoritarian world. This episode ties in with The Schizoanalysis Project and its collaborative reading group on Anti-Oedipus.

Devin's Substack: https://substack.com/@leftnietzschean

The Schizoanalysis Project (Discord server): https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3Qxn

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Sereptie is joined by Keegan Kjeldsen of The Nietzsche Podcast to explore the exile of Dionysus in the modern world. They discuss the Dionysian as a force of ecstasy, self-forgetting, and excess, tracing its decline from ancient Greek rituals to the rationalized, surveilled, and moralized structures of today. Touching on Nietzsche, Bataille, and Orphic traditions, they consider whether Dionysus can be reclaimed and what his return might look like. The conversation also explores surveillance culture, secrecy, and the necessity of spaces for true excess and creative expenditure.

Jordan Peterson Doesn't Understand Nietzsche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To82G_sLWXQ

Keegan's book: https://www.blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/p/theritualmadnessofrockandroll

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In this monologue, we explore the many faces of Dionysus, from mythology to depth psychology and continental philosophy. Drawing on Dionysus in Exile, the discussion highlights his paradoxical nature—not just a god of excess but also of stillness and transformation.

Nietzsche and Deleuze provide insight into Dionysian becoming, especially through Ariadne’s myth as a break from heroic struggle. The episode introduces "naxotic transformation", a shift from burdens and individuation toward affirmation, play, and creative renewal.

This perspective challenges the modern obsession with struggle and mastery, offering a new way to think about psychological health and philosophy. 

Support LEPHT HAND:

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Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com

Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon

Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/

Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main