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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.

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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

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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.

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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 for the first time or looking to sharpen your approach, this video is for you.

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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 knowledge emerges from conflicting impulses, not logical clarity. Affect, parody, myth, and multiplicity become vital lenses through which to glimpse a reality that rationality alone cannot contain.

Find the essay here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1221080.Such_a_Deathly_Desire

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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, this one’s for you.

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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 across biology, depth psychology, and metaphysics—linking snake venom, Jungian archetypes, and the limits of Platonic form. This is a deep dive into transduction, metastability, and the alchemical rhythms of becoming.

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