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Welcome to LEPHT HAND — a channel for immersive philosophy, psychology, and politics. Created by Sereptie (Craig) from the Acid Horizon podcast, this channel is your gateway to informative essays, thought-provoking videos, and exclusive content from Sereptie's interdisciplinary coursework . Thank you for subscribing. 

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

    2 days ago

    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

    1hr 8min
  2. Logging Off, Opting Out, and Not Texting Back: The Ethics of Non-Response with Jana Bacevic

    17 May

    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

    1hr 35min
  3. Prog Rock, Politics, and the Pathos of Distance: Is Progressive Music Elitist or Revolutionary?

    5 May

    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.comWFMU — It's Complicated: wfmu.org/playlists/GXLA Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/dave-mandlElevated Landscapes (photo book): roman-nvmerals.myshopify.com/products/vol-cdxl-elevated-landscapes-by-dave-mandlHis Bands Emergency Group: emergencygroup.bandcamp.comTime Trout: otoroku.bandcamp.com/album/stuck-like-jane-austenSereptie's Prog Metal Band — eENIK Bandcamp: eenik.bandcamp.com/track/hints-of-mercurySpotify: open.spotify.com/album/2nQkBlBJuzhxo0fNDRtbRPSupport 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

    1hr 23min
  4. The PBS Unconscious: Childhood Wonder, Nostalgia, and the Collapse of Shared American Culture

    27 Apr

    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

    1hr 43min
  5. Deleuze, Drugs, and Death: Psychedelic Thanatology at the End of Life

    31 Mar

    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

    1hr 9min
  6. Can Machines Imagine? Fabian Offert on AI, Images, and 'Vector Media'

    8 Mar

    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

    1hr 6min
  7. Love Breaks This World: Power and Politics in Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold (Ring Cycle) with Phil Ford

    13 Feb

    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

    1hr 13min
  8. From Weird Academia to Acid Communism: Meta-Politics, Community, and Holding Space for the Humanities

    7 Feb

    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

    1hr 15min
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Welcome to LEPHT HAND — a channel for immersive philosophy, psychology, and politics. Created by Sereptie (Craig) from the Acid Horizon podcast, this channel is your gateway to informative essays, thought-provoking videos, and exclusive content from Sereptie's interdisciplinary coursework . Thank you for subscribing. 

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  • Creator
    SEREPTIE
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    44
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    © 2026 LEPHT HAND
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