LEPHT HAND

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-courses Can something as ordinary as a selfie crack open a window onto the deepest questions of mind, faith, and mortality? In this episode, Emma and Sereptie sit down with writer Jonathan Malesic to unpack his essay "Unfaithful Reproductions," which begins with a photo taken on his dying father's deathbed, a photo he long assumed was a selfie, until he learned otherwise. From there the conversation ranges from Feuerbach's theory of religious projection to reality shifting, Christian mysticism, and the strange intimacy of Substack, all circling the same impossible question: can we ever really know another mind, or do we only ever encounter our own reflection cast back at us? What unfolds is a wide-ranging, unexpectedly moving meditation on grief, technology, and the leap of faith required just to believe we understand each other at all. Jon's essay: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/unfaithful-reproductions/ The End of Burnout: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-end-of-burnout/paper Jon's Substack: https://substack.com/@jonmalesic Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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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: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/jung-and-spinoza-god-affect-destiny Is psychology, as we've inherited it, equal to the challenges we now face? A polished, audio-only version of the opening remarks and initial responses from our recent AHRC public panel, hosted by Bob Langan and joined by Gabriela Sova Spulirova, JF Martel, and Christian McMillan. The panel asks whether Jung can be "radical," or whether his notion of interiority forecloses that from the start, and whether our conception of the psyche remains too divorced from the material. Full panel: https://youtu.be/N1dbLVTA-l8 Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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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 dynamics behind astrology’s reputation as frivolous, unpacking why interest in the occult so often gets coded as feminine, queer, or "unserious". Drawing on Adorno’s essay “The Stars Down to Earth,” we examine astrology’s function as pseudo-rationality under capitalism, then push back against Adorno’s faith in pure reason as itself a political liability for the left. The conversation ranges from yoga and secular meditation to the historical purge of mythologist Karl Kerényi, ultimately arguing that the irrational and imaginal are not distractions from politics but resources the left urgently needs to reclaim. Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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Scandal, Shadow, and the Underworld: Where the Symbolic Meets the Political

Listen to the full episode here: Enroll in Bob's class at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/jung-and-spinoza-god-affect-destiny In this Patreon exclusive episode, recurring guest and friend of the podcast Dr. Bob Langan returns to help unpack a scandal unfolding within the community of analytical psychology and Jungian media. It is one that sheds light on an already-perforated boundary between the symbolic and political registers, and more pointedly reveals the limits of the Jungian framework as it is often employed today to fend off the intrusion of far-right ideology into its inner circles. Taking the public collapse of the popular podcast This Jungian Life (a lawsuit between its co-hosts, allegations of pseudonymous anti-trans activism, and the installation of a producer with ties to The Epoch Times) as a case study, Craig and Bob trace how the reification of archetypes, the politics of projection, and the discipline's own economic and institutional pressures leave it vulnerable to exactly the reactionary capture it claims to diagnose. Bob's website: https://www.roberthlangan.com/ ig: roberthlangan Substack: https://univocitydrift.substack.com/ Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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AI as Anti-Politics: Daniel Stanley on Technopopulism, Data, and Rebuilding Collective Power

Enroll at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Is 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 to unpack his essay "AI as Anti-Politics," arguing the technology isn't an external assault on democratic life but the product of decades of shifts that already hollowed out collective political power. We explore technopopulism and ask what it would take to rebuild institutions capable of pushing back against extraction. Also in the discussion: data as a collective resource, the revival of interest in social clubs and in-person organizing, and why funding these new institutions might be the most difficult problem of all. Future Narratives Lab: https://www.futurenarrativeslab.org/ Dan's paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jkxy_QPKk_W_yg4uanXx17Qnyka6ry-x/view?usp=sharing Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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*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-civilization-recovering-from-industry-and-progress Are we free to think, or has our attention already been excavated before we can conceive of thinking? In this episode, Serpetie welcomes Henry Kramer of the School of Radical Attention for a wide-ranging conversation on attention fracking, the colonization of the imagination, and what it might mean to re-enchant our relationship to the more-than-human world. Drawing on depth psychology, phenomenology, and radical politics, we explore whether mysticism and activism can ever really be reconciled--or might it rather be the case that keeping this tension is one of the purposes of imaginal practice. The public podcast feeds feature a preview of the full conversation. The extended discussion involves more on imaginal practices and a shared raw meditation on the experience of grief in our world today. Contributing subscribers can access the full episode. Henry Kramer: https://henryrkramer.com/ SoRA Website: schoolofattention.org SoRA IG: @schoolofattention Henry's IG: @henry.r.kramer https://substack.com/@henryofmoss Strother School of Radical Attention: https://www.schoolofattention.org/our-people https://substack.com/@henryofmoss Strother School of Radical Attention: https://www.schoolofattention.org/our-people Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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Sacred Science vs. the Machine: Nasr on Nature, Technology & Modernity

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 itself? In this episode, Serpetie and Emma dig into Seyyed Hossein Nasr's 1993 collection The Need for a Sacred Science, taking a critical look at his perennialist argument that the harmony, symbols, and laws of the natural world carry an ontological reality that modern scientific reductionism has all but destroyed. The conversation moves through Nasr's critique of technological progress, the idol of innovation, and some surprising common ground with Deleuze, James Hillman, and anti-civilization thought, including what any of this means in the age of AI. Part two goes deeper into Nasr's sacred order and its tensions with strife and Nietzschean cosmology, and that one is for Patreon subscribers only. Link below. Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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How Can We Build Solidarity With Children? with Madeline Lane-McKinley

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 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. Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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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-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 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. Related writing by Jana: https://janabacevic.net/research/understanding-nonreciprocity/ Jana's essay on the Free Nose Guy Problem: "Epistemic Autonomy and the Free Nose Guy Problem" Jana's scholarly residency: Forest University Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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Prog Rock, Politics, and the Pathos of Distance: Is Progressive Music Elitist or Revolutionary?

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 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. Dave Mandl davidmandl.com WFMU — It's Complicated: wfmu.org/playlists/GX LA Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/dave-mandl Elevated Landscapes (photo book): roman-nvmerals.myshopify.com/products/vol-cdxl-elevated-landscapes-by-dave-mandl His Bands Emergency Group: emergencygroup.bandcamp.com Time Trout: otoroku.bandcamp.com/album/stuck-like-jane-austen Sereptie's Prog Metal Band — eENIK Bandcamp: eenik.bandcamp.com/track/hints-of-mercury Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2nQkBlBJuzhxo0fNDRtbRP Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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: 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. "Corduroy Psychedelia: On Boards of Canada, Hauntology, and the PBS Unconscious": https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/corduroy-psychedelia-on-boards-of AHRC Summer School: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

Deleuze, Drugs, and Death: Psychedelic Thanatology at the End of Life

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? 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. Letheby paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12152-024-09564-3 Sujit Thomas: https://as.nyu.edu/departments/anthropology/graduate/alumni/doctoral-alumni/thomas-sujit.html?challenge=d06e90d7-4d8f-4b88-9d8c-10b73beb60f1 Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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 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. Buy Fabian's book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921675/vector-media/ Fabian's website: https://zentralwerkstatt.org/ “The Method of Critical AI Studies, A Propaedeutic,” Fabian Offert and Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.18833 "Generative Digital Humanities," Fabian Offert and Peter Bell: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/short23.pdf Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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-main 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. Enroll in Phil's course on music and the tarot: https://weirdosphere.mn.co/ Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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 “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. Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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 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. Aragorn's Links: academia: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aragorn-Eloff/research music: http://asqus.bandcamp.com/ Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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/qny873rafa9ibhcyj2t2x1cwsuvtln 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. Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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 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. Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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 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. Graham's Substack: https://sublimerevolutionaries.substack.com/subscribe?next=https%3A%2F%2Fsublimerevolutionaries.substack.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dglobal-search&later=true&just_signed_up=true&subscription_id=1053278865&referral_token=g501q&requires_confirmation=&utm_source=cover_page&email=sereptie%40gmail.com&skip_redirect_check=true Boycott Watkins in IG: https://www.instagram.com/boycottwatkins/ Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/

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, 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 . Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ 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 The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/