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Why Rationalism Fails: Excess, Variation, and Ontogenesis as First Philosophy (with Timothy Jackson)
16 Nov 2025
01:22:33
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.
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Bergson and Weird Philosophy: JF Martel on Time, Subjectivity, and Weirding Realism
02 Nov 2025
01:21:02
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.
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WOULD YOU LIVE THIS LIFE AGAIN?: Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Eternal Return
14 Jun 2025
00:19:46
(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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Individuation Explained: Gilbert Simondon, Carl Jung & the Evolution of Form in Philosophy and Depth Psychology with Timothy Jackson
11 Jun 2025
01:29:30
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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.
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Play, Sovereignty, and the Refusal of Work: Bataille’s Challenge to Modern Thought
03 May 2025
00:54:53
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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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The Image of Soul in Post-Jungian Thought: Giegerich, Deleuze, and Beyond
01 Apr 2025
01:01:51
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_
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Schreber’s Paranoia: Madness, Power and the Politics of Psychosis with Devin Gouré
23 Mar 2025
01:10:43
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.
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Dionysus in Exile: Nietzsche, the Dionysian, and the Modern World with Keegan Kjeldsen
02 Mar 2025
01:42:45
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
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.
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Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism: What's the Connection? with Raul Moncoya
31 Jan 2025
01:01:06
Contact Raul and discover his work here: https://www.raulmoncayophd.com/
Buy the book: https://www.routledge.com/Lacan-and-Chan-Buddhist-Thought-Reflections-on-Buddhism-in-Lacans-Seminar-X-and-Beyond/Moncayo-Yu/p/book/9781032056975?srsltid=AfmBOooucogAZl7Z8szfzd1l8OhR8pTYQ0_F3vnxUL2G6Qw1TezclrYa
In this episode we explore the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Chan Buddhism with Raul Moncoya, author and Buddhist priest. Together, we discuss how concepts like Lacan’s “real” and Buddhist “emptiness” illuminate human suffering, identity, and transformation. Raul shares his journey through psychoanalysis and Zen, tracing influences from Buenos Aires to Paris and Berkeley, where he has practiced and taught for over 40 years. Key topics include jouissance, the law, and how these traditions address contemporary challenges like addiction, media saturation, and spiritual practice.
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On Melancholy and Mania: James Hillman and Gilles Deleuze meet Nosferatu
22 Jan 2025
00:35:52
In this installment of LEPHT HAND, we delve into the James Hillman Uniform Edition on On Melancholy and Depression, exploring his archetypal approach to melancholy as a cosmic force and its critique of modern life under capitalism. Drawing connections to Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, we examine how longing and melancholy transcend individual experience to reveal a richer, imaginal world. Finally, we consider the tension between archetypal and Deleuzian perspectives on dreams, desire, and becoming, highlighting the transformative power of yearning.
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Writing as Exorcism: Dreams and Dissolution in the Work of Henri Michaux (with Garett Strickland)
19 Oct 2025
01:06:06
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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 spell. In this episode, Garett Strickland joins Sereptie to explore A Certain Plume, Darkness Moves (anthology), and Michaux’s hallucinatory experiments as acts of metaphysical revolt. Together they consider how writing, for Michaux, becomes an art of disappearance—a way of turning life itself into an exorcism.
"Five Gates - Disquiet of the Virtual and the Artificial" feat. Jason Bahbek Mohaghegh and Reza Negarastani and Acid Horizon: https://dice.fm/event/v3oy6l-durations-five-gates-disquiet-of-the-virtual-and-the-artificial-8th-nov-public-records-new-york-tickets
Philosophy and Magic w/ Mitch Horowitz, Phil Ford, and Maeg Keane: https://dice.fm/event/bbyrkv-durations-philosophy-and-magic-w-mitch-horowitz-phil-ford-and-maeg-keane-upstairs-7th-nov-public-records-new-york-tickets
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What is Freud's Metapsychology? with Taylor Adkins
29 Dec 2024
01:34:28
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In this episode, Taylor joins Sereptie to discuss Freud’s Metapsychology, exploring the conceptual underpinnings of psychoanalysis. From the topographical model of the mind to the dynamics of repression, we unpack the key essays that form Freud’s theory of psychic structures and drives.
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Jung and Spinoza: Passage Through the Blessed Self with Dr. Robert Langan
23 Dec 2024
01:19:33
Jung and Spinoza: Passage Through the Blessed Self: https://www.routledge.com/Jung-and-Spinoza-Passage-Through-The-Blessed-Self/Langan/p/book/9781032851853
In this episode of LEPHT HAND, host Serpetie aka Craig is joined by Dr. Robert Langan, author of Jung and Spinoza: Passage Through the Blessed Self, to explore the intersections between Carl Jung’s monistic philosophy—where spirit, matter, and psyche form an interconnected whole—and Baruch Spinoza’s vision of a unified substance. Jung’s approach to the unconscious and symbolic life resonates with Spinoza’s metaphysics, offering profound insights into the unity of existence and the nature of transformation. The discussion also covers Hegel’s interpretation of Spinoza, the connections between Jung and Deleuze, the role of Dr. Jordan Peterson in popularizing Jung’s ideas, and the complexities of Jung’s political views.
In this episode of LEPHT HAND, we sit down with Tom Cheetham, author and expert on the intersections of imagination, spirituality, and psychology, to explore the concept of active imagination. Drawing from the works of Henry Corbin, Carl Jung, and James Hillman, the conversation illuminates how active imagination serves as a bridge between the seen and unseen worlds, enabling profound personal and collective transformation.
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Deleuze, Symbols, and Sorcery: Synthesizing Insights on Deleuze's Hermeticism
19 Nov 2024
01:20:44
The Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille
In this interview, I am joined by c_o_L_L_a_g_e, a friend and colleague from our research community at Acid Horizon. Together, we explore the intersection of Deleuze's philosophy and the role of symbols within the hermetic tradition, drawing insights from texts such as The Hermetic Deleuze by Josh Ramey and Deleuze and the Unconscious by Christian Kerslake. Our conversation begins by examining Jung’s critique of Freud’s dominance in psychoanalytic thought through his concept of the libido and culminates in a discussion of how hermeticism intersects with philosophy as a guide for life.
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Destituent Power and the Reclamation of the Imagination with Serene Richards
22 Oct 2024
00:47:54
Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille
Biopolitics as a System of Thought: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/biopolitics-as-a-system-of-thought-9781350412095/
In this LEPHT HAND interview, we explore the themes of destituent power and political imagination in Serene Richards' Biopolitics as a System of Thought, situating her ideas within the frameworks of thinkers like Jean-Luc Nancy and Pierre Legendre. Richards examines how "Smart Being" operates within a techno-capitalist logic that prioritizes survival over transformative potential, echoing Legendre's critiques of societal structures and Nancy's reflections on "the abyss" and metaphysical ungrounding.
Serene on Acid Horizon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AQ-Co7FCEw
Pierre Legendre, "The Dogmatic Value of Aesthetics": https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13534640802416900
Nancy's "Beyond the Abyss": https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/articles-1/before-the-abyss
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Bataille on War and the "Acéphalous" Project
08 Oct 2024
01:02:33
The Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille
In this episode, Adam C. Jones of Acid Horizon joins a recent livestream with Sereptie to dive into Georges Bataille’s complex relationship with war, exploring his shift from insurrectionary fervor to an uneasy advocacy for peace in the nuclear age. We examine Bataille's views on sovereignty, expenditure, and the tension between violence and liberation. Plus, we discuss the upcoming Kickstarter launch for Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille, a deck that channels Bataille’s provocative ideas through the medium of tarot, with insights from Adam and the team behind this unique project.
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From Bataille to Blanchot: The Negative Community and the Death of the Other
26 Sep 2024
00:48:50
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🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncover the raw, provocative fusion of Bataille's philosophy and tarot in this daring new deck. Pre-launch is live—discover more and join us in this journey:
In this monologue, we explore Maurice Blanchot's "The Unavowable Community," examining his profound exploration of what it means to exist in relation to others. We’ll discuss how Blanchot reimagines community as something defined not by shared goals or ideals but by the impossibility and absence that underpin human connections. Drawing from the concept of désœuvrement ("unworking"), we'll explore Blanchot’s dialogue with other thinkers like Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy, tracing how their ideas challenge the notion of community as a fixed or positive entity. Along the way, we’ll consider themes of mortality, solitude, and the encounter with the Other, and how these elements force us to rethink the boundaries of belonging and shared experience.
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The Thought and Life of Simone Weil with Kenny Novis
10 Sep 2024
01:07:10
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In this LEPHT HAND interview, Sereptie speaks with philosopher and researcher Kenny Novis about the complex and often contentious ideas of Simone Weil. The conversation explores the controversies surrounding Weil's life and work, while Kenny offers valuable insights into her thought, exploring her deep personal engagement with Christianity and her association with liberation movements across Europe during the interwar and WWII eras.
Kenny's Links: Twitter: @saditious A Beginner’s Guide to Simone Weil: https://saditious.wordpress.com/2022/07/26/a-beginners-guide-to-simone-weil/ Kenny's scholarship and writing: https://oxford.academia.edu/KennethNovis Also: David Levy's new anthology on Weil: https://routledge.com/Simone-Weil-Basic-Writings/Levy-Weil-Barabas/p/book/9781032072111?srsltid=AfmBOopCpo8EkbNNA_l4Q4P2dO0bN98xFwaBw90WVV38uCO8UJjEEZ-u AttentionSW, the biggest digital platform for Weil scholars: https://attentionsw.org Martin Andic's Notebook Sources for Gravity and Grace: https://americanweilsociety.org/assets/docs/Andic_Key_to_Gravity_and_Grace.287182452.doc
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The Alchemy of Salt and Subjectivity: James Hillman and Jacques Derrida versus a Salty Jordan Peterson
26 Aug 2024
00:50:29
In this monologue, Sereptie explores the fascinating intersections of alchemy, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralist philosophy. The discussion centers around the concept of alchemical salt, its significance in Renaissance alchemical traditions, and its appropriation in 20th-century psychological theories. This episode connects these ideas with the works of Carl Jung, James Hillman, and Jacques Derrida, offering a unique perspective on the formation and function of subjectivity and how they challenge the polemics of Jordan Peterson.
Salt and the Alchemy of the Soul: https://www.springpublications.com/marlan.html
Acid Horizon Episodes on James Hillman with Grant Maxwell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DZ7DNzswVg&t=928s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD_8qbqsl8k&t=1645s
More James Hillman discussions on Acid Horizon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwYMJfO-cHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwYMJfO-cHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttc714Kqzas&t=678s
Acid Horizon with The Nietzsche Podcast on Heraclitus: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=acid+horizon+heraclitus
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Fascism and Sovereignty: Examining Georges Bataille's "The Psychological Structure of Fascism" (Part 2)
12 Aug 2024
00:44:55
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In the follow up to the very first episode of LEPHT HAND, we continue to delve into Georges Bataille's seminal essay, "The Psychological Structure of Fascism." We explore Bataille's analysis of the social and psychological dynamics underpinning fascist regimes. Key concepts discussed include: fascism, sovereignty, as well as the work of Ernst Bloch, and Alberto Toscano
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The Body Without Organs: Artaud’s Last Writings with Stephen Barber
26 Sep 2025
01:06:25
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 organs.” Translator and scholar Stephen Barber joins us to discuss A Sinister Assassin, a collection that gathers together these visionary late texts. Together we explore Artaud’s last visions of theater, delirium, and radical corporeal transformation.
The True Story of Jesus-Christ: Three Notebooks from Ivry — Translated and introduced by Peter Valente. https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/the-true-story-of-jesus-christ
Artaud 1937 Apocalypse: Letters from Ireland — The collection of letters from his apocalyptic journey to Ireland, edited & translated by Stephen Barber. https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/artaud-1937-apocalypse
Obliteration of the World: A Guide to the Occult Belief System of Antonin Artaud — By Peter Valente. https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/the-obliteration-of-the-world
The True Story of Artaud-Mômo — A recent edition of Artaud’s lecture / “face-to-face” text from 1947, newly translated and published by Infinity Land Press. https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/the-true-story-of-artaud-m%C3%B4mo
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Nietzsche and Irrationalism: Can Art Justify Existence? (Georges Bataille, Georg Lukács, and James Hillman)
06 Aug 2024
01:31:02
In this first interview featured on LEPHT HAND, Sereptie dives into a thought-provoking discussion with Devin Gouré, co-host of the Moral Minority podcast and author of the Substack blog Methods of Madness. This conversation explores the intersection of Nietzsche's philosophy and Bataille's theory of fascism, focusing on the challenging question of how to justify existence in a world devoid of divine or universal mandates.
Moral Minority: https://pod.link/1728182343 Methods of Madness: https://devingour.substack.com/
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Examining Georges Bataille's "The Psychological Structure of Fascism" (Part 1)
19 Jul 2024
00:56:45
In this inaugural episode of LEPHT HAND, we delve into Georges Bataille's seminal essay, "The Psychological Structure of Fascism." We explore Bataille's analysis of the social and psychological dynamics underpinning fascist regimes. Key concepts discussed include: Marxism, anarchism, anthropology, political economy.
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Myth, Nostalgia, and Liberation: Federico Campagna’s 'Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History'
23 Aug 2025
01:08:30
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. We look at myth’s place in anti-capitalist politics, its tension with materialism, and its role in resisting despair. What emerges is a vision of myth as a politics of possibility against history’s catastrophes.
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Join us with Grafton Tanner on live stream on 8.24.25: https://studio.youtube.com/video/BC5H8TU6wqQ/edit
"Technic and Magic: Politics, Neoplatonism, and the Limits of Language with Federico Campagna": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sSdkgnXgqs
Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/otherworlds-9781350536401/
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Gilgamesh: The Oldest Story Ever Told and Why It Still Haunts Us Today (with Stuart Kendall)
10 Aug 2025
01:34:54
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, and its resistance to modern humanist smoothing. What emerges is not just a story—but a fragmentary vision of mythic time and cosmic mourning.
Stuart Kendall's "Gilgamesh": https://www.contramundumpress.com/gilgamesh
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Undoing the Myth of the Father: Freud, Feminism, and the Symbolic Violence of Western Thought
02 Aug 2025
01:17:33
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 the myths of Athena, Aphrodite, Pandora, and Ariadne through the lens of psychoanalysis and queer feminist theory. We examine the lingering grip of masculine mastery in culture, the dangers of symbolic amnesia, and the creative potential of mythic counter-fantasies. Together, we ask what it would mean to live in a world no longer ruled by mastery—but by multiplicity, cunning, and care.
Motherless Daughters & Female Monsters: Androcentric Fantasy in Ancient Greek Myth & Freudian Theory
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Did Aristotle Anticipate the Body Without Organs? Pneuma, Soul, and Formlessness
27 Jul 2025
00:32:18
What if Aristotle had already conceived of something like a body without organs? In this special walking episode of LEPHT HAND, Craig (aka Sereptie of Acid Horizon) and returning guest Jack Bagby descend the old rail line in Lemont, Pennsylvania to excavate Aristotle’s theory of pneuma—the subtle, instrumental body that mediates between soul and flesh. Along the way, they connect Aristotle to thinkers like Deleuze, James Hillman, and Gilbert Simondon, asking whether pneuma offers a lost model of embodied thought, emergent life, and ecological intelligence. The conversation also turns toward dreams, depth psychology, and the urgent need for experimental forms of political and metaphysical imagination.
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How to Read Philosophy Without Getting Lost: Practical Tips for Beginners and Beyond
23 Jul 2025
00:16:03
Have you ever tried to read a work of philosophy and ended up feeling more confused than enlightened? In this video, Sereptie—also known as Craig, host of Acid Horizon and LEPHT HAND—shares practical, field-tested strategies for reading difficult texts with confidence. Drawing on years of experience as both a teacher and theorist, he offers a compassionate guide for anyone who’s ever struggled with attention, comprehension, or just knowing where to start. Whether you’re picking up philosophy for the first time or looking to sharpen your approach, this video is for you.
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Nietzsche and Klossowski: Consciousness, Parody, and the Origins of Thought
29 Jun 2025
00:09:05
What if laughter, rage, or grief weren’t just emotional outbursts—but modes of knowing, ways in which being announces itself to us before thought arrives? In this short video, we descend into the tangled philosophies of Pierre Klossowski and Friedrich Nietzsche to ask: What if consciousness is not our origin, but our aftermath? Through Klossowski’s essay "Nietzsche, Polytheism, and Parody", we explore the idea that truth may be less a matter of reason than a residue of struggle—where knowledge emerges from conflicting impulses, not logical clarity. Affect, parody, myth, and multiplicity become vital lenses through which to glimpse a reality that rationality alone cannot contain.
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Socialism, Spirituality and the Forgotten Occult Roots of the Left with Graham Jones
28 Nov 2025
01:22:50
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 and the Occult” and why its knee-jerk rationalism gets the history wrong. We explore the intersections of Marxism, mysticism, occult traditions, utopian thought, and the warm stream of revolutionary desire. The discussion moves through materialist spirituality, political subjectivity, Boycott Watkins, and how radical movements can reclaim the ecstatic and the ineffable.
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AHRC 2026: A Brief Hiatus & A Reflection on Vattimo’s “Beyond the Subject
13 Dec 2025
00:34:58
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 HAND and Acid Horizon continue to evolve beyond the podcast form! Closing out the episode is a reflection on Gianni Vattimo’s essay “Beyond the Subject,” engaging questions of weak thought, interpretation, and the limits of the sovereign self. As we close out the year, we’re also preparing a new slate of courses through the Acid Horizon Research Commons, and we look forward to returning soon, welcoming many of you into the classroom in the weeks ahead.
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Philosophy After Academia: Public Thought, Digital Media, and the Attention Economy with Craig and Emma
05 Jan 2026
01:25:01
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In this episode, Craig is joined by Emma Stamm as LEPHT HAND begins a new chapter in 2026. Rather than centering on a single text, the conversation reflects on early encounters with philosophy and how those formative experiences shape the way thinking is pursued today. Together, Craig and Emma begin to sketch what rigorous philosophical research might look like outside traditional academic institutions, emphasizing collective study, depth, and experimentation. The episode serves as a calibration, setting the terms for how LEPHT HAND will think, work, and research going forward.
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From Weird Academia to Acid Communism: Meta-Politics, Community, and Holding Space for the Humanities
07 Feb 2026
01:15:22
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 “closet” of weird scholarship, asking how encounters that rupture established methods can open new forms of knowledge. The conversation turns toward meta-politics, examining non-communication, collective retreat, and para-academic practices as forms of resistance amid digital exhaustion and institutional collapse. Along the way, we connect weirding to acid communism, communal learning, and the ongoing struggle to sustain the humanities as a living, shared practice.
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Deleuze and Simondon on Psychedelic Experience: Individuation and Immanent Spirituality with Aragorn Eloff
13 Jan 2026
01:36:59
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 theories of mind. Aragorn introduces his theory of the psychedelic, drawing on enactivism, complex systems theory, and theories of individuation and becoming. Together, the discussion explores anxiety, metastability, immanent spirituality, and the risks and possibilities of psychedelic transformation. The episode considers how non-computational models of mind open new ways of thinking about consciousness, therapy, and collective sense-making.
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Love Breaks This World: Power and Politics in Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold (Ring Cycle) with Phil Ford
13 Feb 2026
01:13:22
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What happens when love is absent from the stage, yet remains the hidden force driving every act of power and betrayal? In this episode of LEPHT HAND, we sit down with Phil Ford of Weird Studies to explore Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold and the mythic machinery of the Ring Cycle. Moving between politics, metaphysics, and music, we examine the curse of gold, the logic of contracts, and the catastrophic singularity of love. Along the way, we ask whether Wagner’s aesthetic vision can be disentangled from his ideology and what it still reveals about the modern soul.
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Can Machines Imagine? Fabian Offert on AI, Images, and 'Vector Media'
08 Mar 2026
01:06:06
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 and the philosophical stakes of machine learning. Together they explore machine vision, the politics of images, and the strange epistemology of vector space, where culture, language, and visual media are flattened into new regimes of abstraction. Along the way, the conversation touches on critical technical practice, AI art, and whether these systems reveal something about human perception or instead confront us with an alien form of thought.
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Deleuze, Drugs, and Death: Psychedelic Thanatology at the End of Life
31 Mar 2026
01:09:08
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What 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 episode of LEPHT HAND and Acid Horizon, SEREPTIE and Emma are joined by anthropologist Sujit Thomas, whose research on psychedelic thanatology cuts through therapeutic optimism to ask harder questions about pastoral power, metaphysical belief shift, and the commodification of mystical experience. Drawing on Foucault, Deleuze, and Nietzsche, the conversation moves from authentic dying to the death transcendence scale and Huxley's heroic final dose — asking whether the good death being marketed to us is really a pacification of the excess and irrationality that makes life worth affirming.
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The PBS Unconscious: Childhood Wonder, Nostalgia, and the Collapse of Shared American Culture
27 Apr 2026
01:42:33
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: Boards of Canada and the PBS Unconscious — an exploration of nostalgia, childhood wonder, and the shared cultural commons that neoliberalism quietly dismantled. Drawing on Mark Fisher's hauntology and acid communism, Spinoza's theory of affect, and the uncanny aesthetics of films like Picnic at Hanging Rock, the conversation asks whether the affects instilled in us by PBS, Napster, and late-night diners might still carry some political charge. From Boards of Canada dads to the death of the diner, this is a wide-ranging meditation on what it means to grieve a future that never came.
What does it mean that the music most associated with wizards, capes, and sixteen keyboards also harbored some of the most radical left politics in rock history? In this episode, Emma and Sereptie are joined by writer, bassist, and WFMU radio DJ Dave Mandl for a deep dive into the origins, aesthetics, and political contradictions of progressive rock. From the egalitarian aristocracy of prog's classical pretensions to the outright communism of Henry Cow and the Art Bears, we trace the fault lines between individualism, elitism, and genuine aesthetic liberation. Along the way we ask whether the charge of bourgeois excess ever really stuck — and what prog's capacious, boundary-pushing spirit might still have to offer a left politics in search of new forms.
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Logging Off, Opting Out, and Not Texting Back: The Ethics of Non-Response with Jana Bacevic
17 May 2026
01:35:05
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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 philosophy of a sociopath, but sociologist and philosopher Jana Bacevic argues it's actually the foundation of a more honest and more just ethics. In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Emma sits down with Jana to discuss non-reciprocity, a concept that challenges the Kantian backbone of liberal morality and asks what it would mean to stop paying back a system that was never fair to begin with.
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We live in a world that is profoundly against children—evident in the genocide in Palestine, the fascist targeting of trans children, and the blatant disregard for the lives of migrant children crossing borders and oceans. It is a world in which climate catastrophe has become the new normal, in which children’s futures are by no means assured.
What we need, feminist writer and scholar Madeline Lane-McKinely argues, is a politics of solidarity with children, one that sees children as comrades in our struggle for a better future. Blending personal and political reflection with cultural analysis, Lane-McKinley examines the history of childhood as a system of private property in capitalism, showing how the idea of the child has been weaponized in the service of white supremacy and empire. They disentangle motherhood from the act of caregiving, tracing the possibilities of revolutionary mothering. And they critique the parents’ rights movement and imagines what education might look like outside schools, considering how we might center children as we challenge the strictures of the nuclear family.
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