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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...

Listen to the full episode here: Enroll in Bob's class at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/jung-and-spinoza-god-affect-destiny In this Patreon exclusive episode, recurring guest and friend of the podcast Dr. Bob Langan returns to help unpack a scandal unfolding within the community of analytical psychology and Jungian media. It is one that sheds light on an already-perforated boundary between the symbolic and political registers, and more pointedly reveals the limits...

Enroll at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Is AI really the threat to democracy we've been told it is, or is it just democracy's own rot wearing a new face? Daniel Stanley of the Future Narratives Lab joins us to unpack his essay "AI as Anti-Politics," arguing the technology isn't an external assault on democratic life but the product of decades of shifts that already hollowed out collective political power. We explore technopopulism and ask what it would take to r...