100 episodes
Diet Soap - a podcast Douglas Lain
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4.5 • 148 Ratings
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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.
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Blackrock's Lockdown and the Conformist Left
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.Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Why Your Stalinism is a Mistake
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 Exceptionslismhttps://sublationmedia.com/product/the-strange-death-of-american-exceptionalism/Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Responding to Midwestern Marxism's Anti-Frankfurt School Rant
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 Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/102008116Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Why Not Trump, Again?
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 Lefthttps://sublationmedia.com/product/the-death-of-the-millennial-left-interventions-2006-2022/Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Did Late Capitalism End Already?
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 Baaschhttps://www.compactmag.com/article/too-late-for-late-capitalism/Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Fake News, Fake Left, War, Disease, Dogs and Cats Lying Together, Hysteria
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 Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/more-fake-101568924Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Customer Reviews
Still Marxist after all these years(?)
Stubbornly representing Marxist, Marxian, and Marx-ish ideas. I hold out hope that one day, Lain and Varn will read Rerum Novarum, Quadragesimo Anno, and Centesimus Annus and see the light.
Mixed bag but not clearly trying to brand itself as “controversial” like Compact
Very eclectic and often seeming to be purposefully contrarian. Weird mix of so-called “Marxist humanism “, Moishe Postone, lots of Christopher Lasch, and being anti-woke for the sake of being anti-wokeness. There are some good episodes, like the debate over GA Cohen and analytical Marxism a few years ago, recent interview with JA Smith, and the recent discussion on afterlives of the Frankfurt School.
A lot of it is just too confusing and peripatetic for me to handle. I was on oxycodone yesterday on subway after oral surgery and hearing the interview with Jack Ross made me feel like I was way more high than I’ve ever been. His responses were all about 25 minutes long and made 0 sense.
Good example of conservative style Marxism
This is an entertaining view of Marxist/ Hegelian philosophy.just be aware that it comes from a questionable conservative place that place’s identity politics in opposition to Marxism, specifically often in a quite transphobic way.