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

    18 HR AGO

    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 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

    1hr 23min
  2. 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 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

    1hr 43min
  3. 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 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

    1hr 9min
  4. 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 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

    1hr 6min
  5. 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 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

    1hr 13min
  6. 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 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

    1hr 15min
  7. Deleuze and Simondon on Psychedelic Experience: Individuation and Immanent Spirituality with Aragorn Eloff

    13 JAN

    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 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

    1hr 37min
  8. Philosophy After Academia: Public Thought, Digital Media, and the Attention Economy with Craig and Emma

    5 JAN

    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 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

    1hr 25min
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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
    42
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