LEPHT HAND

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

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 Patr

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

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*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Attention Fracking: How Big Tech Steals Your Mind with Henry Kramer

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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

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

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Logging Off, Opting Out, and Not Texting Back: The Ethics of Non-Response with Jana Bacevic

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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 associa

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 Sta

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 medicalizatio

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

Love Breaks This World: Power and Politics in Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold (Ring Cycle) with Phil Ford

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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 t

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

Philosophy After Academia: Public Thought, Digital Media, and the Attention Economy with Craig and Emma

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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. Th

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

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 rational

Bergson and Weird Philosophy: JF Martel on Time, Subjectivity, and Weirding Realism

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 H

Writing as Exorcism: Dreams and Dissolution in the Work of Henri Michaux (with Garett Strickland)

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 th