Identity on Credit: Ajax, Achilles, and the Modern Self with Fredrik Westerlund
Acid Horizon17 Elo 2025

Identity on Credit: Ajax, Achilles, and the Modern Self with Fredrik Westerlund

What happens when the self we imagine drifts further from the one we actually live? In this episode, philosopher Fredrik Westerlund joins Craig and Nicholas de Warren to explore his concept of “identity on credit,” where our sense of self is built on promises yet to be realized. From Sophocles’ Ajax to Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Scheler, we trace how recognition, resentment, and failure shape the modern psyche. Together we ask whether it is possible to live beyond the creditor–debtor logic of id...

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Michel Foucault: The Utopian Body (1966)

Michel Foucault: The Utopian Body (1966)

A reading of Michel Foucault's 1966 essay "The Utopian Body". Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Zer0 ...

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Sci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid Horizon

Sci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid Horizon

Adam and Will are joined by Professor Steven Shaviro to discuss his work on the philosophy of science fiction, developing on themes from recent texts such as Extreme Fabulations and 2016's Discognitio...

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William S. Burroughs: "The Limits of Control" and Its Influence on Deleuze

William S. Burroughs: "The Limits of Control" and Its Influence on Deleuze

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon We explore the origins of Deleuze's concept of the Control society by taking a deep dive into the priest of the Beat Generation: William S. Burroughs. Taking c...

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Data is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI (no music)

Data is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI (no music)

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Just how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within...

18 Touko 202313min

Data is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI

Data is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Just how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within...

17 Touko 202313min

'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' and Beyond: An Interview with Tariq Goddard

'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' and Beyond: An Interview with Tariq Goddard

Grab 'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/high-john-the-conqueror-a-novel/ When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and ...

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What Do Deleuze and Guattari Mean by 'Becoming-Animal'? (vs. Plato, Carl Jung, and James Hillman)

What Do Deleuze and Guattari Mean by 'Becoming-Animal'? (vs. Plato, Carl Jung, and James Hillman)

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon (This video has incidental moderate visual strobe effects) This video is an introduction to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'becoming-animal' from A Thousand...

7 Touko 202315min

Do Communists Understand Money? Marxism and the Economics of Value w/ Colin Drumm and Acid Horizon

Do Communists Understand Money? Marxism and the Economics of Value w/ Colin Drumm and Acid Horizon

Colin Drumm is an educator and organizer at the Mimbres School, which on their Discord server is described as "dedicated to the pursuit of an intellectual life beyond the decaying ruins of the univers...

4 Touko 20231h 2min

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