100 episodes
Diet Soap - a podcast Douglas Lain
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- Society & Culture
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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Was Adorno a Leninist?
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 Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Breadtube and Woke/Anti-Woke Politics
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 Amazonhttps://www.amazon.com/Woke-Ouroboros-Essentialism-Peter-Coffin-ebook/dp/B0BQ3XR447Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
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Highlights After 15 Years: Ben Burgis's Appearance and Beyond
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.
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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