LEPHT HAND

Find Emma's course here: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesWhat if modernity's greatest crime isn't economic or political, but spiritual, a severing of humanity from the sacred language written into nature itself? In this episode, Serpetie and Emma dig into Seyyed Hossein Nasr's 1993 collection The Need for a Sacred Science, taking a critical look at his perennialist argument that the harmony, symbols, and laws of the natural world carry an ontological reality that modern scientific reductionism has all but destroyed. The conversation moves through Nasr's critique of technological progress, the idol of innovation, and some surprising common ground with Deleuze, James Hillman, and anti-civilization thought, including what any of this means in the age of AI. Part two goes deeper into Nasr's sacred order and its tensions with strife and Nietzschean cosmology, and that one is for Patreon subscribers only. Link below.Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDEmma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Merch 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

AHRC EVENTS: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/previous-courses-1Buy Madeline's book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-solidarity-with-childrenWe live in a world that is profoundly against children—evident in the genocide in Palestine, the fascist targeting of trans children, and the blatant disregard for the lives of migrant children crossing borders and oceans. It is a world in which climate catastrophe has become the new normal, in which children’s futures are by no means assured.What we need, feminist writer and scholar Madeline Lane-McKinely argues, is a politics of solidarity with children, one that sees children as comrades in our struggle for a better future. Blending personal and political reflection with cultural analysis, Lane-McKinley examines the history of childhood as a system of private property in capitalism, showing how the idea of the child has been weaponized in the service of white supremacy and empire. They disentangle motherhood from the act of caregiving, tracing the possibilities of revolutionary mothering. And they critique the parents’ rights movement and imagines what education might look like outside schools, considering how we might center children as we challenge the strictures of the nuclear family. Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDEmma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Merch 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

Enroll at AHRC Summer School 2026: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesWhat if you don't owe anyone anything? Not your attention, not your care, not even a reply to their message? That might sound like the philosophy of a sociopath, but sociologist and philosopher Jana Bacevic argues it's actually the foundation of a more honest and more just ethics. In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Emma sits down with Jana to discuss non-reciprocity, a concept that challenges the Kantian backbone of liberal morality and asks what it would mean to stop paying back a system that was never fair to begin with.Related writing by Jana: https://janabacevic.net/research/understanding-nonreciprocity/Jana's essay on the Free Nose Guy Problem: "Epistemic Autonomy and the Free Nose Guy Problem"Jana's scholarly residency: Forest UniversitySupport LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDEmma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Merch 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

AHRC Summer School: www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesVintagia is back! www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/vintagia-basecampWhat does it mean that the music most associated with wizards, capes, and sixteen keyboards also harbored some of the most radical left politics in rock history? In this episode, Emma and Sereptie are joined by writer, bassist, and WFMU radio DJ Dave Mandl for a deep dive into the origins, aesthetics, and political contradictions of progressive rock. From the egalitarian aristocracy of prog's classical pretensions to the outright communism of Henry Cow and the Art Bears, we trace the fault lines between individualism, elitism, and genuine aesthetic liberation. Along the way we ask whether the charge of bourgeois excess ever really stuck — and what prog's capacious, boundary-pushing spirit might still have to offer a left politics in search of new forms.Dave Mandldavidmandl.comWFMU — It's Complicated: wfmu.org/playlists/GXLA Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/dave-mandlElevated Landscapes (photo book): roman-nvmerals.myshopify.com/products/vol-cdxl-elevated-landscapes-by-dave-mandlHis BandsEmergency Group: emergencygroup.bandcamp.comTime Trout: otoroku.bandcamp.com/album/stuck-like-jane-austenSereptie's Prog Metal Band — eENIKBandcamp: eenik.bandcamp.com/track/hints-of-mercurySpotify: open.spotify.com/album/2nQkBlBJuzhxo0fNDRtbRPSupport LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDEmma's Substack: https://elftheory.substack.com/Sereptie's Substack: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Merch 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