100 episodes
Diet Soap - a podcast Douglas Lain
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- Society & Culture
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4.6 • 23 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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A Response to "The Alternative to Genocide" Critics
Chris 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 Cutronehttps://sublationmedia.com/product/marxism-and-politics-essays-on-critical-theory-and-the-party-2006-2024/Listen to the Second Hour on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/how-left-became-104860372Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Should We Love Big Brother? (featuring Ben Burgis)
Ben 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 Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Is Western Finance to Blame?
Fabio 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 Rumblehttps://rumble.com/v4vtfgh-is-western-finance-to-blame.htmlSupport Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Canada Rolls Out NEW AND IMPROVED CANCEL CULTURE
In 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 Roomhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/104234479Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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The Alternative to Genocide is Slavery
Chris Cutrone returns with an essay entitled "The Alternative to Genocide" and a challenge to socialists. Can you avoid petite-bourgeois illusion? Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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The New Aufhebunga Bunga!
Alex Hochuli joins Doug to discuss the upgraded Aufhebunga Bunga podcast, the death of the Millennial Left, and the situation in Gaza.Aufhebunga Bunga Podcasthttps://bungacast.com/Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Customer Reviews
Great Podcast
Diet Soap is a great podcast for those interested in the radical left. Full of interesting audio clips and collages, and replete with great in depth interviews on everything from Karl Marx to Karl Marx! More please...
Marxist podcast
Diet Soap is fiction author Douglas Lain’s unashamedly (and refreshingly) partisan Marxist podcast. Because the host’s idiosyncratic curiosities set the agenda, the interviews can initially seem somewhat eclectic and it is doubtful anyone will equally enjoy all the content. Some may elect to skip a psychoanalytic discussion on anxiety about death featuring excerpts from Wood Allen films. Others may be less interested in conversations with Andrew Kliman defending Marx's idea of a decline of the rate of profit against advocates of the neoliberal theory of capitalist hegemony. However, if any of the breadth of subjects has some pull than the relevant episodes will be a treat. There are certain topics that crop up repeatedly (e.g. the Situationist International, Hegelianism, Slavoj Žižek and aesthetics) and a few regular contributors: like the aforementioned Kliman, David Blacker and C Derick Varn. Generally these are the strongest episodes. As well as the new releases, the archive is worth browsing; especially the old pop the left pieces, which include informative elucidations of left history.
There are a number of pedagogic podcasts I like: History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps; From Alpha to Omega; In Our Time and The Partially Examined Life. None have engaged my attention as consistently as Diet Soap.