Diet Soap - a podcast
411 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days 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 565: Degrowth "Communism" is Middle Class Anti-Politics
June 27, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBLeigh Phillips and Matt Huber join Douglas Lain to discuss their essay "Kohei Saito’s “Start From Scratch” Degrowth Communism." How has the ecology movement distorted Marx? Why is "degrowth" popular in a society that cannot avoid growth? What is the path to socialism? Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 564: Responding to the Swoletariat on Fat Acceptance
June 25, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBAshley Frawley explains fat acceptance and other popular trends in this week's Sublation Magazine Stream, and Doug is debriefed in the parrot room. Join Us for a Second Hour on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/106858590 Support Sublation Media: https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 563: Chris Cutrone: A Filmmaker at the Conventions
June 21, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBChris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss their plans to make a film about the 2024 Democratic and Republican party conventions. They discuss the film Medium Cool as an influence. Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 562: Postmodern Neo-Stalinism vs. Western Marxism
June 17, 2024 00:00 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MBThis critical cuts video is a critique of neo-Stalinism, a defense of Western Marxism, and a book review of "Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures," an art book from a post-modern art exhibition from the year 2000.
Episode 561: How the Wars are Propping Up Capitalism [RUMBLE AUDIO]
June 14, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBFabio Vighi is the author of the upcoming book, "Emergency Capitalism," due out from Sublation Media later this year. In this episode he discusses how "geopolitical conflicts" are helping the financial sector manage the ongoing crisis known as capitalism. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 560: MAGA Communism and the NEW Anti-Imperialism
June 11, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBAshley and Doug discuss the new Stalinist/MAGA Communist anti-imperialism. Without condemnation or presuming that the anti-imperialists are acting in bad faith, but with the aim of understanding the ideological moment we are in, this stream will take a look at some clips from videos from Infrared, Caleb Maupin, and Peter Coffin. Join Us for a Second Hour on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/106007137?pr=true Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 559: The Last Marxist weighs in on the Trump Vedict
June 07, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis week's Cutrone Zone includes his interpretation of the Trump Verdict and how we should understand bourgeois law and the rights of the accused. Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 558: Was Bakunin RIGHT? (ft Spencer Leonard and Cyberdandy)
May 31, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBDouglas Lain receives a lesson on anarchism from Cyberdandy and Spencer Leonard in this special episode of Diet Soap. Listen to the Second Half on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/anarchist-105304314 Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 557: The Teenager as a Product of Capitalism
May 28, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBAshley and Doug discuss the history of the teenager and teenage culture before turning their attention to some current news stories regarding the #Twitterfiles and the origin of COVID 19. Join Us for a Second Hour on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/parroting-105102965 Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 556: A Response to "The Alternative to Genocide" Critics
May 24, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBChris Cutrone returns to discuss the reaction to his essay "The Alternative to Genocide" and to discuss how and why leftists are, in reality, right-wing. BUY MARXISM AND POLITICS by Chris Cutrone https://sublationmedia.com/product/marxism-and-politics-essays-on-critical-theory-and-the-party-2006-2024/ Listen to the Second Hour on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-left-became-104860372 Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 555: Should We Love Big Brother? (featuring Ben Burgis)
May 23, 2024 00:00 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBBen Burgis and Djene Bajalan join Douglas Lain to discuss the War on Disinformation, and to resolve an argument that broke out on the Diet Soap 15 hour anniversary livestream. Should be hope that social media companies become the fully recognized property of the state, how concerned should we be about the war on disinformation, and how should socialists understand and relate to the Capitalist State? Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 554: Is Western Finance to Blame?
May 17, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBFabio Vighi discusses his upcoming book "Emergency Capitalism" and explains how financial capitalism and productive capitalism can't be treated separately but must be understood as united. How the disintegration and irregulatiry in the financial sector is the result of a crisis stemming from production. Watch the Entire Episode on Rumble https://rumble.com/v4vtfgh-is-western-finance-to-blame.html Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 553: Canada Rolls Out NEW AND IMPROVED CANCEL CULTURE
May 15, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBIn this episode of the Sublation Magazine Show Ashley and Doug discuss the Canadian Online Harms Act, a new US presidential election poll, the Strange Death of American Exceptionalism, and the meaning (or lack of meaning) of the pro-Palestinian protests. Join Us for a Second Hour in the Parrot Room https://www.patreon.com/posts/104234479 Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 552: The Alternative to Genocide is Slavery
May 10, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBChris Cutrone returns with an essay entitled "The Alternative to Genocide" and a challenge to socialists. Can you avoid petite-bourgeois illusion? Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 551: The New Aufhebunga Bunga!
May 09, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBAlex Hochuli joins Doug to discuss the upgraded Aufhebunga Bunga podcast, the death of the Millennial Left, and the situation in Gaza. Aufhebunga Bunga Podcast https://bungacast.com/ Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 550: Students and the Capitalist University
May 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBAshley and Doug discuss generational politics, the Capitalist University, students as a revolutionary class, and the concept of regression in this week's stream. Join Us for a Second Hour https://www.patreon.com/posts/103806222 Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 549: The Left Can't Make Use of the Gaza War?
May 01, 2024 00:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBAshley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss Benjamin Studebaker's essay for Sublation Magazine entitled "The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War" and Doug reads the opening remarks he gave at the Platypus panel "From Politics to Protest" last week. The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War https://sublationmedia.com/the-left-cannot-make-use-of-the-gaza-war/ Join Us For a Second Hour https://www.patreon.com/posts/from-politics-to-103343741 Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://p...
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.