LEPHT HAND

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.Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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_DesireMore on the incommunicable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UoxeBAYXbgSupport LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

(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, this one’s for you.More on Deleuze's philosophy on Acid Horizon (as seen in the video): https://youtu.be/xJxE-rJKo-sSupport 'Vintagia', my tool for creative discovery: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creativesSupport LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

Support the Vintagia campaign before it is too late! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creativesWhat 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.Timothy's work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vOnot8oAAAAJ&hl=enSupport LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

Support Vintagia: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives In this monologue, we 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, Sereptie examines Bataille’s call for thought to reconnect with its tragic, sovereign origins. This episode charts a path from the refusal of utility toward a ludic theory of revolution.Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

Follow Vintagia: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creativesIn 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 unpack Laruelle’s challenge to Neoplatonism, dialectics, and the pedagogical authority of philosophy. Along the way, we consider how this "unlearned knowing" might offer tools for thinking mysticism on the left, beyond both theology and theory.Vision-in-One or Unlearned Knowing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-i7-kfCt_ykSxrMrUIeNxLwLKcCzcl3LbSJCR_etVQ/edit?tab=t.0Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

Sereptie's recent blog piece: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/crossing-the-line-the-repeater-booksIn 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 ultimately resists or reinforces metaphysical closure, especially through his engagements with myth, quantum physics, and active imagination. From the tension between unity and multiplicity to the porous borders of psyche and world, this episode maps a vital terrain where psychology and philosophy entangle.Jung, Deleuze, and the Problematic Whole: https://www.routledge.com/Jung-Deleuze-and-the-Problematic-Whole/Main-McMillan-Henderson/p/book/9780367428754?srsltid=AfmBOoqe_oY33gzfY-OUNa7-pi-TpZp_NOd2gEHsytljDk-bBnaBR8y_Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 the symbolic fractures of modernity. Devin also shares personal reflections on living with psychosis and the stakes of reclaiming madness in an increasingly authoritarian world. This episode ties in with The Schizoanalysis Project and its collaborative reading group on Anti-Oedipus.Devin's Substack: https://substack.com/@leftnietzscheanThe Schizoanalysis Project (Discord server): https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3QxnSupport LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 culture, secrecy, and the necessity of spaces for true excess and creative expenditure.Jordan Peterson Doesn't Understand Nietzsche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To82G_sLWXQKeegan's book: https://www.blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/p/theritualmadnessofrockandrollSupport LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

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 affirmation, play, and creative renewal.This perspective challenges the modern obsession with struggle and mastery, offering a new way to think about psychological health and philosophy. Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Acid Horizon Research Commons is now live: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main