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Overthink

2025-11-25

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Hang loose! In episode 149 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about all things surfing. They explore the long history of wave-riding across the globe, from Peru to West Africa, and consider how surfing helps us to reimagine social issues and what surfing reveals about the connection between flow and freedom. Is surfing the pinnacle of human life? How has the sportification of surfing directly contravened surfing’s anti-capitalist ethos? Why is the average surfer an image of white masculinity? And how is this image tied to indigenous erasure? In the Substack bonus segment, your hosts discuss the similarities between surfing and skating, surfing as an art, and the existential risk of surfing. Works Discussed Daniel Brennan, Surfing and the Philosophy of Sport Kevin Dawson, Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Aaron James, Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry Into a Life of Meaning Peter Kreeft, I Surf, Therefore I Am: A Philosophy of Surfing Aileen Moreton Robinson, “Bodies That Matter: Performing White Possession on the Beach” Peter J. Westwick and Peter Neushul, The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing Wade in the Water: A Journey Into Black Surfing and Aquatic Culture (2023) Enjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: https://www.givecampus.com/fj0w3v Join our Substack for ad-free versions of both audio and video episodes, extended episodes, exclusive live chats, and more: https://overthinkpod.substack.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  • Hello and welcome to Overthink.

  • The podcast where two philosophy professors put philosophy in dialogue with everyday life.

  • I'm Ellie Anderson.

  • And I'm David Penya Guzman.

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  • David, when I first proposed this episode to you, you had some questions for me.

  • I might be a California native and we might both live in the state,

  • but neither of us regularly surfs.

  • So why would we devote an episode of our philosophy podcast to this somewhat specific activity?

  • But then I shared with you some research I had found about surfing and the good life,

  • much of which is written by philosophers.

  • And you started to come around a bit.

  • So how are you feeling about it now that we've actually agreed to do this episode?

  • I know I was a hater at the beginning.

  • Now I'm obviously going to become a surfer.

  • But you know,

  • it's shocking how my view of something will do a complete 180 as long

  • as I like allow myself to think about it philosophically and more rigorously.

  • And that definitely happened with this topic.