Diet Soap - a podcast
394 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 122 ratingsThe 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.
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Episodes
Episode 548: Was Adorno a Leninist?
April 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 137 MBChris 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
Episode 547: Breadtube and Woke/Anti-Woke Politics
April 25, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBPeter 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
Episode 546: Highlights After 15 Years: Ben Burgis's Appearance and Beyond
April 24, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBIn 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.
Episode 545: Blackrock's Lockdown and the Conformist Left
April 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBFabio 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. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 544: Why Your Stalinism is a Mistake
April 11, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MBJack 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://sublationmedi...
Episode 543: Responding to Midwestern Marxism's Anti-Frankfurt School Rant
April 09, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBAshley 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
Episode 542: Why Not Trump, Again?
April 05, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBChris 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/ Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 541: Did Late Capitalism End Already?
April 04, 2024 00:00 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBKyle 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/ Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoa...
Episode 540: Fake News, Fake Left, War, Disease, Dogs and Cats Lying Together, Hysteria
April 02, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBAshley 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
Episode 539: Emergency Capitalism-Full Show from Rumble
March 29, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBFabio 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.
Episode 538: The Failure of the European Left
March 28, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBArturo 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.
Episode 537: Ukraine from Maidan to War
March 20, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBThis 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. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 536: A TikTok Ban & Gender Affirming Care Reconsidered
March 19, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBAshley 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
Episode 535: A Human Solution for Palestine?
March 15, 2024 00:00 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBRon 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/ Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 534: Free To Be You And Me?
March 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBAshley 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.
Episode 533: Trump, Presidents, and the American Revolution
March 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 99.2 MBThe 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. Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 532: Putin's Brain and the War in Ukraine
March 07, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 99 MBConrad Hamilton explores the anti-imperialist quasi Fascism in Dugin's thought and the history that shaped "Putin's Brain." Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap 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
Episode 531: Debating Marx's Theory of History (ft Sean Sayers and Steve Paxton)
March 04, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBOriginally 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 i...
Episode 530: Theory Underground and Learning from Heidegger, Marx, Hegel, & Zizek
February 29, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBDavid McKerracher from Theory Underground describes his book "TIMEENERGY: Why You Have No Time or Energy" and discusses left philosophy with Douglas Lain Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap TIMENERGY on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/TIMENERGY-Why-Have-Time-Energy/dp/B0CH28JL4N TIMENERGY on TheoryUnderground https://theoryunderground.com/product/timenergy-bulk/
Episode 529: Living In the Imperialist World
February 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBChris Cutrone returns for another Cutronezone, this time to explain what it means to live through the highest stage of capitalism. Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 528: How Zizek and Columbo Can Help
February 23, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes - 17.9 MBDavid Shields's upcoming book "How We Got Here" explores how we've lost sight of the concept of the truth. It walks the reader through the history of Western Epistemology. This video offers up Columbo as one of remaining cultural icons that still stands for truth, even after the postmodern turn. Support Sublation Media on Patreon? https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 527: What does Caleb Maupin Really Think?
February 22, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBIn this week's Sublation Magazine Show Doug presents a pre-recorded conversation between Ashley Frawley and Caleb Maupin. In the second hour the patrons will join the conversation to discuss what was said. Join the Second "Parrot Room" Stream On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/98831338 Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 526: Putin vs. Biden (What Next for Ukraine?)
February 14, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBDouglas Lain and Reid Kane Kotlas discuss Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin and the revelations from Special Prosecutor Rober Hur's report on Biden's classified documents scandal. The question for this channel is "how should the left think through this moment of crisis for the democratic party?" Join Us for the Second Hour in the Parrot Room https://www.patreon.com/posts/reid-kane-in-98401863 Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 525: Why Regular Workers Should Rule
February 09, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBChris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the old Marxist idea of "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat" in this episode of the Cutrone Zone. Is it a scary phrase? Can we trust everyday people to self-govern? What is socialism anyhow? Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 524: Have YOU Evolved Into Your IDEOLOGY?
January 31, 2024 00:00 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBThe Reverend John Milton Bunch drops in to teach Doug a lesson in science and to demonstrate that political activists and theorists need to believe the science. Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 523: Is DAVOS Socialist?
January 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBChris Cutrone discusses the rational kernel in Javier Milei's recent speech at DAVOS and explains how socialists should take up capitalism in order to transform it. Listen to the second hour on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/parrots-davos-97246173 Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 522: Learn the ZIZEK EQUATION that Explains FAKE NEWS
January 24, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBDavid Shield's is the author of the upcoming book "How We Got Here" along with dozens of other bestselling books such as "Reality Hunger" and "The Thing About Life is One Day You'll Be Dead." In this episode of Diet Soap Douglas Lain uses the Black Mirror Episode "Joan is Awful" as an example that helps to explain the ideas in David Shield's' book. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 521: How WOKE IDEOLOGY is replacing INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY
January 19, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MBJack Ross is author of "The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History" with Nebraska Press and "The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism," a book that is coming soon from Sublation. This video introduces Ross's argument that the real aim of the puritanical but progressive "woke" ideology, is to erase or overturn the bill of rights and to smash the notion of individual liberty to pieces. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 520: Understanding Western Maoism (ft. Chris Cutrone)
January 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBChris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss how Maoism came to define the ideology of the American left as the Cutronezone returns in 2024. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 519: Critique of the Anarchist Dialectic (ft. Spencer Leonard)
January 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBSpencer Leonard follows up on the recent discussion of Proudhon that featured Ben Burgis, Cyber Dandy, and Douglas Lain. What was Marx's critique of Proudhon's dialectic? What can the left still learn from Proudhon. Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 518: The Israel/Palestine Conflict and Opportunities for the Left
January 01, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBJames A Smith, co-host of the Popular Show, debates Douglas Lain about the Israel/Palestine conflict and the the opportunity it presents for the international left.
Episode 517: Modern Art as the Art of Freedom
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBChris Cutrone walks Doug through the history of bourgeois art from Eugène Delacroix to Eduard Manet. The Death of the Millennial Left by Chris Cutrone https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/the-death-of-the-millennial-left Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 516: The Zionist Case for Ending U.S. Aid to Israel (ft. Jacob Siegel)
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBJacob Siegel is a Senior Editor at Tablet magazine, a fiction writer, and veteran. He is also a committed Zionist and critic of US policy both domestically and internationally.
Episode 515: Israel: A settler-colonial state? A clarification
December 13, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBRalph Leonard is a British-Nigerian writer on international politics, religion, culture, and humanism. His recent essay for Sublation Magazine explains why it is accurate to refer to Israel as a Settler Colonial State, and why doing so explains less than it appears to explains. Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 514: Is the Millennial Left to Blame for the State of the World?
December 09, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBChris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the impact and importance of the Death of the Millennial left. Along the way they also discuss the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Listen to the Second Hour on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/debating-form-94327736 Buy the Death of the Millennial Left from Sublation Media https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/the-death-of-the-millennial-left Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 513: Anarchism vs. Marxism (ft. Cyber Dandy and Ben Burgis)
December 08, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBBen Burgis and Cyber Dandy join Doug for a conversation about Proudhon and Mars. What was Marx's critique of Proudhon? Why did anarchism and Marxism split? Who is the last Marxist? Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 512: Putting Javier Milei in Historical Context (ft. Arturo Desimone)
December 01, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBArturo Desimone is an Aruban-Argentine writer, poet and visual artist. In this interview he explains the history of Peronism and the meaning of Javier Milei. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 511: Embracing the Disease Called Freedom (with Slavoj Zizek)
November 23, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBThis interview with Slavoj Zizek was meant to be the moment when the channel stopped obsessing about the brutal bombings on Gaza and the intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine and returned to theory. This was not to be. Zizek had a lot on his mind regarding the allegations of anti-semitism that he faced, the strange embrace of Hamas in some quarters of the left, and the need to think during a time of crisis. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoa...
Episode 510: How the Left Rejects the Possibility of Change
November 18, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBChris Cutrone discusses the current political moment with Douglas Lain. Topics include dialectics, the superiority of Brave New World to 1984, the Palestinian struggle, and why it is that Doug let's Chris get away with murder.
Episode 509: Has the Left Rediscovered its Purpose?
November 10, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBChris Cutrone, author of "The Death of the Millennial Left," discusses the left's embrace of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as the new center of its political project. Chris Cutrone's "The Death of the Millennial Left" https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/the-death-of-the-millennial-left
Episode 508: Aleksandr Dugin Fights for the Oppressed?
November 09, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBResident Stalinist Conrad Hamilton argues that, as bad as Dugin is, he nonetheless is objectively struggling against Western Imperialism. Conrad Hamilton will be speaking on Dugin in London at the Historical Materialism Conference on Monday, November 9th at 7pm in the School of Oriental and African Studies, room B102 and on Nov 13th from 2pm-4pm at the Stapleton Hall Tavern, Finsbury Park, London. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 507: Palestine and the Miseducation of Rashida Tlaib
October 27, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBChris Cutrone addresses his critics and returns to the need to develop a socialist politics as opposed to a ethno-nationalist Wilsonian utopian politics in the Cutrone Zone. Purchase Cutrone's Book: The Death of the Millennial Left https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/the-death-of-the-millennial-left Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 506: A Plan to End the Occupation of Palestine (ft. Arturo Desimone)
October 26, 2023 00:00 - 51 minutes - 71.4 MBArtist, journalist, and political activist Arturo Desimone explains the Diem 25's discarded plan to end the occupation of Palestine. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 505: The Hyperreality of Terrorism (and why we love it)
October 19, 2023 00:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBSusanna Kleeman, author of the novel Twice and the upcoming Baudrillardian self-help book: Fatal Dating Tips discusses Baurdillard, Debord, terrorism and hostage taking on this week's Diet Soap podcast. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 504: The Left, Hamas, and Socialism
October 13, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBThe Last Marxist Chris Cutrone discusses the situation in Israel and Gaza, explains his own controversial understanding of what's necessary for the emancipation of the Palestinians, and discusses what he calls "reformism with bombs." Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 503: Are We All Terrorists Today?
October 05, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBFakhry Al-Serdawi is a Palestinian writer contributing to the Palestinian publication "Arab48" and to the Lebanese publication "Al-Akhbar." In this episode of Diet Soap, Fakhry and Doug discuss how Orientalism informs today's woke politics. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 502: What was the Concept of the Left?
September 29, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBChris Cutrone discusses Leszek Kolakowski's essay "The Concept of the Left": From the essay: The Left--and this is its unchangeable and indispensible quality, though by no means its only one--is a movement of negation toward the existing world. For this very reason it is, as we have seen, a constructive force. It is, simply, a quest for change. The Death of the Millennial Left Audiobook https://www.sublationmedia.com/product-page/the-death-of-the-millennial-left-interventions-2006...
Episode 501: The Left Lost its Reason?
September 27, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBDerrick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss Horkheimer's book "The Eclipse of Reason," the technocracy, and the question of the PMC in this month's edition of Pop the Left!
Episode 500: Obama Reconsidered as the Age of Trump Continues...
September 16, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBChris Cutrone looks back at the Obama years as the audiobook version of his book "The Death of the Millennial Left" hits the virtual shelves at the Sublation Media website: The Death of the Millennial Left-AUDIOBOOK https://www.sublationmedia.com/product-page/the-death-of-the-millennial-left-interventions-2006-2022-1 Support Us on Patreon https://dietsoap.com/patreon
Episode 499: Jean Baudrillard as Dating Coach?
September 15, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBSusanna Kleeman, author of the novel Twice, returns to the channel to discuss Jean Baudrillard and her upcoming book Fatal Dating Tips: Pratical Advice on How to Find Real Love in an Unreal World. Fatal Dates with Susanna Kleeman https://www.fataldates.com/ Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap