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AHRC Courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Several weeks ago, we asked patrons to contribute questions to our very first Q&A episode featuring Serpetie, Emma, and Bob. In the discussion, we tackle questions on the topic of Spinoza’s subversive political legacy, how the thinkers we read shape the way we relate to others, and whether sound or image is closer to memory, the body, and the symbolic. Along the way: Deleuze’s consolations, the gaze of eternity, and the surpri...

Is Everything Predictable?: AI, Prediction Markets, and the Philosophy of Foresight: https://www.index-space.org/programming/is-everything-predictable-ai-prediction-markets-and-the-philosop-evt-xnCQQKMg0qG8Snk Acid Horizon Research Commons: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses SEREPTIE - Live at Woskob Family Gallery: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/events/electro-acoustic-ambient-sereptie-kbd-and-evan-odell Are our critiques of social media smuggling in old humanist baggage, tr...

The Lenox Institute for Advanced Study: https://lenoxinstitute.org/ Acid Horizon Research Commons Ongoing Courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Can something as ordinary as a selfie crack open a window onto the deepest questions of mind, faith, and mortality? In this episode, Emma and Sereptie sit down with writer Jonathan Malesic to unpack his essay "Unfaithful Reproductions," which begins with a photo taken on his dying father's deathbed, a photo he long assumed was a s...

The fall season of AHRC courses begins next week. Enroll in two classes and get a third free with code 3FOR2FALL2026. Bob Langan's Jung and Spinoza: God, Affect, Destiny, beginning October 4th: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/jung-and-spinoza-god-affect-destiny Is psychology, as we've inherited it, equal to the challenges we now face? A polished, audio-only version of the opening remarks and initial responses from our recent AHRC public panel, hosted by Bob Langan and join...

Is astrology a harmless distraction or a pseudo-science opening a path to fascism? Or can it help us reclaim an imagination lost to the hyper-rationalism of modernity? In this episode, Sereptie and Emma trace the gendered and racialized dynamics behind astrology’s reputation as frivolous, unpacking why interest in the occult so often gets coded as feminine, queer, or "unserious". Drawing on Adorno’s essay “The Stars Down to Earth,” we examine astrology’s function as pseudo-rationality under c...