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.

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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/

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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 rationalism through the lenses of Darwin, Simondon, Deleuze, and Bataille, challenging inherited frameworks across science and metaphysics. We explore variation, excess, and ontogenesis as the forces that precede and destabilize every closed system of explanation. 

To explore more of Timothy’s work, visit his Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vOnot8oAAAAJ&hl=en
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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 perpetual flux, and is this mysticism, metaphysics, or simply reality hiding behind a theatre of representation? Be sure to check out Weird Studies and JF's course linked below.

Weirdosphere: https://weirdosphere.mn.co/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The Last of the Last: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/the-last-revelation-acephalous-and

The image: https://ifunny.co/picture/acid-horizon-acidhorizonpod-what-i-saw-hiking-in-the-appalachian-qpGW5TdIA

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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 disappearance—a way of turning life itself into an exorcism.

Acéphalous and Vintagia updates: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/acephalous-vintagia-and-new-thresholds?r=g501q

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Divining Sounds (Open Music + Acid Horizon, November 1st, State College, PA): https://www.instagram.com/p/DP1XfQ1EXEQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Durations Festival Events

"Five Gates - Disquiet of the Virtual and the Artificial" feat. Jason Bahbek Mohaghegh and Reza Negarastani and Acid Horizon: https://dice.fm/event/v3oy6l-durations-five-gates-disquiet-of-the-virtual-and-the-artificial-8th-nov-public-records-new-york-tickets

Philosophy and Magic w/ Mitch Horowitz, Phil Ford, and Maeg Keane: https://dice.fm/event/bbyrkv-durations-philosophy-and-magic-w-mitch-horowitz-phil-ford-and-maeg-keane-upstairs-7th-nov-public-records-new-york-tickets

Garett Strickland's work

Garett's Substack: portalogy.substack.com

Purchase Garret's Artwork on Instagram: instagram.com/grotstricken

Garett's books:
A Place Beyond: https://asterismbooks.com/product/a-place-beyond
Ungula: https://asterismbooks.com/product/ungula

A Certain Plume: https://www.nyrb.com/products/a-certain-plume
Darkness Moves: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/darkness-moves/paper

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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.

Artaud Books Discussed & Further Reading

• A Sinister Assassin: Antonin Artaud’s Last Writings — Edited, translated, and introduced by Stephen Barber.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/a-sinister-assassin
  
  
• The True Story of Jesus-Christ: Three Notebooks from Ivry — Translated and introduced by Peter Valente.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/the-true-story-of-jesus-christ
  
  
• Artaud 1937 Apocalypse: Letters from Ireland — The collection of letters from his apocalyptic journey to Ireland, edited & translated by Stephen Barber.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/artaud-1937-apocalypse
  
  
• Obliteration of the World: A Guide to the Occult Belief System of Antonin Artaud — By Peter Valente.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/the-obliteration-of-the-world
  
  
• The True Story of Artaud-Mômo — A recent edition of Artaud’s lecture / “face-to-face” text from 1947, newly translated and published by Infinity Land Press.
  https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/the-true-story-of-artaud-m%C3%B4mo

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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.

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Join us with Grafton Tanner on live stream on 8.24.25: https://studio.youtube.com/video/BC5H8TU6wqQ/edit

"Technic and Magic: Politics, Neoplatonism, and the Limits of Language with Federico Campagna": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sSdkgnXgqs

Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/otherworlds-9781350536401/

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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

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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, we ask what it would mean to live in a world no longer ruled by mastery—but by multiplicity, cunning, and care.

Motherless Daughters & Female Monsters: Androcentric Fantasy in Ancient Greek Myth & Freudian Theory

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-78066-0

Otherwise than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438488813/html?lang=en#:~:text=Otherwise%20Than%20the%20Binary%20approaches,thinking%2C%20particularly%20concerning%20sexual%20difference.

Borderlands and Liminal Subjects: Transgressing the Limit in Philosophy and Literature

https://www.amazon.com/Borderlands-Liminal-Subjects-Transgressing-Philosophy/dp/3319884921

Empedocles in Sicily

https://www.amazon.com/Empedocles-Sicily-Heritage-Western-Greece/dp/1942495722

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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 of embodied thought, emergent life, and ecological intelligence. The conversation also turns toward dreams, depth psychology, and the urgent need for experimental forms of political and metaphysical imagination.

Socratic Swansongs (Jack's YouTube Channel):  @SocraticSwansongs  

Is Everything an Image? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQjq-9Zbzc

Aristotle on Intensity: https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase_mobile?openform&fp=epoche&id=epoche_2024_0028_0002_0243_0271

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