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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 Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 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. Acéphalous and Vintagia updates: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/acephalous-vintagia-and-new-thresholds?r=g501q Acéphalous and Vintagia surplus sale coming soon! Keep an eye on acidhorizonpodcast.com and subscribe to this Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Divining Sounds (Open Music + Acid Horizon, November 1st, State College, PA): https://www.instagram.com/p/DP1XfQ1EXEQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Durations Festival Events "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 Garett Strickland's work Garett's Substack: portalogy.substack.com Purchase Garret's Artwork on Instagram: instagram.com/grotstricken Garett's books: A Place Beyond: https://asterismbooks.com/product/a-place-beyond Ungula: https://asterismbooks.com/product/ungula A Certain Plume: https://www.nyrb.com/products/a-certain-plume Darkness Moves: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/darkness-moves/paper Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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. Artaud Books Discussed & Further Reading A Sinister Assassin: Antonin Artaud’s Last Writings — Edited, translated, and introduced by Stephen Barber. https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/a-sinister-assassin 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%B4moSupport LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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. Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main 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/ Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-78066-0 Otherwise than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438488813/html?lang=en#:~:text=Otherwise%20Than%20the%20Binary%20approaches,thinking%2C%20particularly%20concerning%20sexual%20difference. Borderlands and Liminal Subjects: Transgressing the Limit in Philosophy and Literature https://www.amazon.com/Borderlands-Liminal-Subjects-Transgressing-Philosophy/dp/3319884921 Empedocles in Sicily https://www.amazon.com/Empedocles-Sicily-Heritage-Western-Greece/dp/1942495722 Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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. Socratic Swansongs (Jack's YouTube Channel):  @SocraticSwansongs   Is Everything an Image? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQjq-9Zbzc Aristotle on Intensity: https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase_mobile?openform&fp=epoche&id=epoche_2024_0028_0002_0243_0271 Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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. Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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. Find the essay here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1221080.Such_a_Deathly_Desire More on the incommunicable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UoxeBAYXbg Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

(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 Support 'Vintagia', my tool for creative discovery: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives Support LEPHT HAND: Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Merch and Design Shop: crit-drip.com Acid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Emma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/ Sereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main