LEPHT HAND

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

    3H AGO

    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

    1h 9m
  2. Can Machines Imagine? Fabian Offert on AI, Images, and 'Vector Media'

    MAR 8

    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

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

    FEB 13

    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

    1h 13m
  4. From Weird Academia to Acid Communism: Meta-Politics, Community, and Holding Space for the Humanities

    FEB 7

    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

    1h 15m
  5. Deleuze and Simondon on Psychedelic Experience: Individuation and Immanent Spirituality with Aragorn Eloff

    JAN 13

    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

    1h 37m
  6. Philosophy After Academia: Public Thought, Digital Media, and the Attention Economy with Craig and Emma

    JAN 5

    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

    1h 25m
  7. AHRC 2026: A Brief Hiatus & A Reflection on Vattimo’s “Beyond the Subject

    12/13/2025

    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 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

    35 min
  8. Socialism, Spirituality and the Forgotten Occult Roots of the Left with Graham Jones

    11/28/2025

    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 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

    1h 23m
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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
    40
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 LEPHT HAND
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