Diet Soap - a podcast
Philosophy Podcasts
The Diet Soap podcast began in 2009 in response to the economic crisis of 2008. Since then it has gone through many transformations, including becoming the podcast for a critical theory imprint out of the UK.
Today the Diet Soap podcast is running under its original name for Sublation Media.
Sublation Media includes a book publishing effort for critical theory and left politics, a magazine that covers current events and theoretical issues, youtube videos on theory and politics, and finally the Diet Soap podcast. The podcast is where we continue to interrogate the left and each other while having a good time.
Location:
United States
Description:
The Diet Soap podcast began in 2009 in response to the economic crisis of 2008. Since then it has gone through many transformations, including becoming the podcast for a critical theory imprint out of the UK. Today the Diet Soap podcast is running under its original name for Sublation Media. Sublation Media includes a book publishing effort for critical theory and left politics, a magazine that covers current events and theoretical issues, youtube videos on theory and politics, and finally the Diet Soap podcast. The podcast is where we continue to interrogate the left and each other while having a good time.
Language:
English
Episodes
Episode 548: Was Adorno a Leninist?
4/26/2024
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the essay "Do We Need Adorno?" The essay was published in Nonsite in 2012 and is included in Cutrone's upcoming book "Marxism and Politics."
Support Sublation Media on Patreon
https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:01:39:17
Episode 547: Breadtube and Woke/Anti-Woke Politics
4/25/2024
Peter Coffin joins Douglas Lain to discuss his book "Woke Ouroboros: Segregation and Essentialism" and the Breadtube controversy regarding plagiarism.
Peter's Book "Woke Ouroboros" on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Ouroboros-Essentialism-Peter-Coffin-ebook/dp/B0BQ3XR447
Support Sublation Media on Patreon
https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:00:35:39
Episode 546: Highlights After 15 Years: Ben Burgis's Appearance and Beyond
4/24/2024
In this episode of the Sublation Magazine Show Ashley and Doug will discuss the 15 hour anniversary stream that we ran last week, tell you how you can still get access to the whole stream, and go over some of the highlights from those 15 hours including the argument Doug had with Ben Burgis.
Duration:01:17:29
Episode 545: Blackrock's Lockdown and the Conformist Left
4/12/2024
Fabio Vighi joins the Malinformation channel as Sublation Media prepares to publish his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this episode Fabio critiques Slavoj Zizek's Capitalist Realism and describes how Blackrock is controlling and destroying the economy.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:01:20:16
Episode 544: Why Your Stalinism is a Mistake
4/11/2024
Jack Ross, author of "The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism," discusses the ideas in his book with Ashley Frawley. Jack goes slowly through the history and his own influences and antecdents as he explains how he's dropped the idea that "before their can be a decent left we need a decent right" and has instead embraced the more pessimistic notion that we have to start by rebuilding the "concept of the left."
Preorder the Death of American Exceptionslism
https://sublationmedia.com/product/the-strange-death-of-american-exceptionalism/
Support Sublation Media
https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:00:46:04
Episode 543: Responding to Midwestern Marxism's Anti-Frankfurt School Rant
4/9/2024
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain respond to Midwestern Marxism's criticisms of the Frankfurt School and discuss Briahna Joy Gray's misstatements regarding the Twitter Files.
Join us for a Second Hour on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/102008116
Support Us on Patreon
https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:01:11:50
Episode 542: Why Not Trump, Again?
4/5/2024
Chris Cutrone discusses the third essay in his "Why Not Trump" series in the context of a US election wherein all sides are abandoning the constitutional order. Lawfare, the power of the executive, impeachments, and a many other topics are discussed in this episode of the Cutronezone.
Buy The Death of the Millennial Left
https://sublationmedia.com/product/the-death-of-the-millennial-left-interventions-2006-2022/
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:01:46:31
Episode 541: Did Late Capitalism End Already?
4/4/2024
Kyle Baasch is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Minnesota and the author of the essay “Too Late for ‘Late Capitalism’” for Compact Magazine. In this episode of Diet Soap we discuss how the idea of "Late Capitalism" has changed and perhaps been emptied out of content over time.
Too Late for Late Capitalism by Kyle Baasch
https://www.compactmag.com/article/too-late-for-late-capitalism/
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Duration:00:42:32
Episode 540: Fake News, Fake Left, War, Disease, Dogs and Cats Lying Together, Hysteria
4/2/2024
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss how postmodernism lingers on in a political form, and how the remnants of the socialist left might find its way back to politics. Topics included: David Shields' documentary, the 2024 US election and Trump, the Strange Death of the American Creed, and can we feel good when things are this bad?
Join Us for a Second Hour on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/more-fake-101568924
Support Us on Patreon
https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:01:08:26
Episode 539: Emergency Capitalism-Full Show from Rumble
3/29/2024
Fabio Vighi joins the Sublation channel as we are publishing his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this new series Fabio will help viewers keep track of the underlying economic conditions that are shaping our world in a time of emergency. Given the nature of these conversations only the first half of these shows will be available on YouTube. This podcast version of the show includes the entire conversation.
Duration:01:03:41
Episode 538: The Failure of the European Left
3/28/2024
Arturo Desimone writings on politics and culture has appeared in CounterPunch, Compact, openDemocracy, the Fortnightly Review, and Sublation Magazine. From 2018 to 2021 he was a co-founding member of the "Peace and International Policy" a subdivision of the "Democracy in Europe Movement" which concerned itself with the movement's critiques of EU foreign policy and security issues. In this episode of Diet Soap Arturo discusses the meaning of Yanis Varoufakis.
Duration:00:46:43
Episode 537: Ukraine from Maidan to War
3/20/2024
This interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko explores the fate of the left in Ukraine. Ishchenko was born in Ukraine in 1982. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Jacobin and the New Left Review. His book "Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War" was published by Verso in February of 2024.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:00:46:39
Episode 536: A TikTok Ban & Gender Affirming Care Reconsidered
3/19/2024
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss criticisms of the WPATH files and the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the TikTok ban).
Join us for a Second Hour in the Parrot Room on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/more-on-tik-tok-100665450
Support Sublation Media on Patreon
https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:01:04:08
Episode 535: A Human Solution for Palestine?
3/15/2024
Ron Kelch and Urszula Wislanka are members of the Marxist Humanist group News and Letters. In this episode of Diet Soap they discuss Franklin Dmitryev's essay Israel’s war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression.
Essay "Israel’s war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression" by Franklin Dmitryev
https://newsandletters.org/israels-war-and-hamas-attack-stoke-retrogression/
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Duration:00:51:09
Episode 534: Free To Be You And Me?
3/12/2024
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss the struggle for civil liberties after the WPATH (World Professional Association of Transgender Health) document leak. How do we defend our civil rights and civil liberties even as we address the revelations that "gender affirming care" is more dangerous than previously believed and may amount to medical malpractice? This podcast features Meghan Murphy and Andrew Doyle as guests.
Duration:01:16:40
Episode 533: Trump, Presidents, and the American Revolution
3/8/2024
The Last Marxist Chris Cutrone discusses the meaning of the American Revolution, Trump remaining on the ballot, the branches of government, and the meaning of socialism.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Duration:01:12:05
Episode 532: Putin's Brain and the War in Ukraine
3/6/2024
Conrad Hamilton explores the anti-imperialist quasi Fascism in Dugin's thought and the history that shaped "Putin's Brain."
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Read an Excerpt from Hamilton's Essay
https://www.sublationmag.com/post/dugin-s-postmodern-denial-of-reality
Purchase Conrad Hamiilton's Full Essay/Pamphlet
https://www.sublationmedia.com/product-page/research-project-pamphlet-10-the-apostate-fascism-of-alexander-dugin
Duration:01:12:01
Episode 531: Debating Marx's Theory of History (ft Sean Sayers and Steve Paxton)
3/4/2024
Originally Uploaded October 21, 2021
Sean Sayers is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent. He has written extensively on Hegelian and Marxist philosophy from a Hegelian Marxist perspective. In April of 2020, he appeared on the Zero Books channel in order to discuss his criticism of GA Cohen, an analytic philosopher, and Marxist. Since then Steve Paxton, who is the author of Unlearning Marx (a book that came out in January of 2021 from Zero Books), has made it known through Twitter that he believes Sayer’s criticisms of Cohen has some flaws.
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Duration:01:03:37
Episode 530: Theory Underground and Learning from Heidegger, Marx, Hegel, & Zizek
2/29/2024
David McKerracher from Theory Underground describes his book "TIMEENERGY: Why You Have No Time or Energy" and discusses left philosophy with Douglas Lain
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TIMENERGY on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/TIMENERGY-Why-Have-Time-Energy/dp/B0CH28JL4N
TIMENERGY on TheoryUnderground
https://theoryunderground.com/product/timenergy-bulk/
Duration:01:03:30
Episode 529: Living In the Imperialist World
2/26/2024
Chris Cutrone returns for another Cutronezone, this time to explain what it means to live through the highest stage of capitalism.
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Duration:01:12:48