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LEPHT HAND

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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81:02

Bergson and Weird Philosophy: JF Martel on Time,...

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2025/11/02

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 ...

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66:06

Writing as Exorcism: Dreams and Dissolution in the...

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2025/10/19

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 disappe...

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66:25

The Body Without Organs: Artaud’s Last Writings with...

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2025/09/26

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. ...

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68:30

Myth, Nostalgia, and Liberation: Federico Campagna’s...

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2025/08/23

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 li...

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94:54

Gilgamesh: The Oldest Story Ever Told and Why It...

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2025/08/10

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.c...

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77:33

Undoing the Myth of the Father: Freud, Feminism, and...

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2025/08/02

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, w...

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32:18

Did Aristotle Anticipate the Body Without Organs?...

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2025/07/27

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...

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16:03

How to Read Philosophy Without Getting Lost:...

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2025/07/23

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 ...

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9:05

Nietzsche and Klossowski: Consciousness, Parody, and...

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2025/06/29

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 knowledg...

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19:46

WOULD YOU LIVE THIS LIFE AGAIN?: Nietzsche, Deleuze,...

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2025/06/14

(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,...

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89:30

Individuation Explained: Gilbert Simondon, Carl Jung...

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2025/06/11

Support the Vintagia campaign before it is too late! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives What if the self isn’t a fixed unity, but a process unfolding through tension, relation, and transformation? In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Sereptie speaks with evolutionary biologist and philosopher Timothy Jackson about Gilbert Simondon’s essay Form, Information, and Potential. Together, they explore the concept of individuation a...

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54:53

Play, Sovereignty, and the Refusal of Work:...

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2025/05/03

Support Vintagia: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives In this monologue, reflect on Georges Bataille’s essay “Are We Here to Play or Be Serious?”—recorded off-grid during a spring power outage! The discussion explores Bataille’s critique of work, the concept of sovereignty, and the political and metaphysical stakes of play as a form of resistance. Through readings of potlatch, sacrificial war, and riddle-solving, Serep...

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70:00

Mysticism Without Transcendence? Laruelle’s...

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2025/04/20

Follow Vintagia: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives In this special crossover episode of LEPHT HAND and Acid Horizon, we explore the radical mysticism of François Laruelle through his essay Vision-in-One or Unlearned Knowing. Laruelle proposes a mysticism stripped of transcendence and doctrine—one grounded in solitude, immanence, and the irreducibility of lived experience. Our guest, translator Jeremy R. Smith, helps u...

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61:51

The Image of Soul in Post-Jungian Thought: Giegerich,...

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2025/04/01

Sereptie's recent blog piece: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/crossing-the-line-the-repeater-books In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Sereptie is joined by Christian McMillan from the University of Essex to explore Wolfgang Giegerich’s provocative essay Why Jung?. Together, they investigate the image of soul as a conceptual battleground in post-Jungian thought, where Giegerich’s Hegelian reading of Jung meets Deleuze’s philosophy of individuation. Their dialogue probes whether Jung’s work...

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70:43

Schreber’s Paranoia: Madness, Power and the Politics...

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2025/03/23

In this LEPHT HAND interview, I am joined by Devin Gouré of Moral Minority for a deep descent into the world of Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Together, they explore Schreber’s cosmic visions, divine persecution, and the "unmanning" at the heart of his psychosis—not merely as symptoms of mental illness, but as portals into theology, gender, philosophy, and power. Alongside Freud, Lacan, and Deleuze & Guattari, the conversation unpacks the metaphysics of paranoia and...

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102:45

Dionysus in Exile: Nietzsche, the Dionysian, and the...

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2025/03/02

Sereptie is joined by Keegan Kjeldsen of The Nietzsche Podcast to explore the exile of Dionysus in the modern world. They discuss the Dionysian as a force of ecstasy, self-forgetting, and excess, tracing its decline from ancient Greek rituals to the rationalized, surveilled, and moralized structures of today. Touching on Nietzsche, Bataille, and Orphic traditions, they consider whether Dionysus can be reclaimed and what his return might look like. The conversation also explores surveillance c...

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56:33

Dionysus Decoded: Nietzsche, Deleuze & Depth...

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2025/02/25

In this monologue, we explore the many faces of Dionysus, from mythology to depth psychology and continental philosophy. Drawing on Dionysus in Exile, the discussion highlights his paradoxical nature—not just a god of excess but also of stillness and transformation. Nietzsche and Deleuze provide insight into Dionysian becoming, especially through Ariadne’s myth as a break from heroic struggle. The episode introduces "naxotic transformation", a shift from burdens and individuation toward affir...

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61:06

Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism: What's the...

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2025/01/31

Contact Raul and discover his work here: https://www.raulmoncayophd.com/Buy the book: https://www.routledge.com/Lacan-and-Chan-Buddhist-Thought-Reflections-on-Buddhism-in-Lacans-Seminar-X-and-Beyond/Moncayo-Yu/p/book/9781032056975?srsltid=AfmBOooucogAZl7Z8szfzd1l8OhR8pTYQ0_F3vnxUL2G6Qw1TezclrYaIn this episode we explore the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Chan Buddhism with Raul Moncoya, author and Buddhist priest. Together, we discuss how concepts like Lacan’s “real” and Buddhist...

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35:52

On Melancholy and Mania: James Hillman and Gilles...

LEPHT HAND ·

2025/01/22

In this installment of LEPHT HAND, we delve into the James Hillman Uniform Edition on On Melancholy and Depression, exploring his archetypal approach to melancholy as a cosmic force and its critique of modern life under capitalism. Drawing connections to Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, we examine how longing and melancholy transcend individual experience to reveal a richer, imaginal world. Finally, we consider the tension between archetypal and Deleuzian perspectives on dreams, desire, and bec...

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94:28

What is Freud's Metapsychology? with Taylor Adkins

LEPHT HAND ·

2024/12/29

Support LEPHT HAND in 2025: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDIn this episode, Taylor joins Sereptie to discuss Freud’s Metapsychology, exploring the conceptual underpinnings of psychoanalysis. From the topographical model of the mind to the dynamics of repression, we unpack the key essays that form Freud’s theory of psychic structures and drives.Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidh...

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