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Diet Soap - a podcast

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

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77:07

Episode 642: Chris Cutrone is Always Right, and...

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2025/05/23

In this episode of the CutroneZone, we dive deep into Chris Cutrone’s essay "On Philosophy and Marxism: Response to Suther and Velissaris"—a characteristically sharp and mournful defense of the dialectic against the return to philosophy. As always, Cutrone’s critique is uncompromising, clear, provocative, and melancholic.Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

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62:40

Episode 641: Trump Wins Again and Again?

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2025/05/22

Philip Cunliffe discusses his recent essay at COMPACT entitled "How Trump Won the Canadian Election." He explains what constitutes sovereignty, why sovereignty is necessary for democracy, and why Trump turned Canada away from cosmopolitan internationalism and towards patriotic nationalism.Philip Cunliffe at Compacthttps://www.compactmag.com/article/how-trump-won-the-canadian-election/Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

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48:45

Episode 640: Neither the US nor China

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2025/05/16

Fabio Vighi returns to throw cold water on the notion that capitalism can be saved. The crisis is terminal. The financialization will continue. In this era of Emergency Capitalism, the crisis will only deepen in the US, in Europe, and in China.Support Sublaton Mediahttps:/patreon.com/dietsoap

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58:13

Episode 639: How Society Got a Sex Change

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2025/05/15

Ashley Frawley is senior editor of Compact. She is the author of two books, Semiotics of Happiness: Rhetorical Beginnings of a Public Problem and Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age. Her writing has appeared in UnHerd, and the New Statesman. She is also the former co-host of Sublation Magazine and in this episode she returns to discuss her latest essay in Compact.How Society Got a Sex Change by Ashley

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60:01

Episode 638: Studebaker Says Democracies Can Cry

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2025/05/12

Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss Benjamin Studebaker's latest essay for Sublation Magazine in this week's Sublation Magazine podcast. Are the Republicans and especially Trump, acting in an anti-democratic manner? What threatens democracy today?Support Sublation Media and Join the Conversation:https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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79:02

Episode 637: Tariffs and Thought Taboos

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2025/05/09

In this episode of the Cutronezone, the Last Marxist discusses his latest essay for Sublation Magazine and speculates on why COMPACT magazine rejected it for publication. How is it that established opinion is incapable of taking up and thinking through the significance of Trump's Tariffs? Read Cutrone's Essay "Fear" in Sublation Magazine:https://www.sublationmag.com/post/fear-itselfSupport Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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38:35

Episode 636: The Prophecy of Walter Kirn

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2025/05/08

Novelist and journalist Walter Kirn discusses his 2006 novel "The Unbinding" and answers questions like:Was Holland Caufield a revolutionary?What is the role of the outsider?Can we escape the Spectacle? Support Us on Patreon for the Second Halfhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

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55:02

Episode 635: Can We Critique Rather than Complain?

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2025/05/02

Wyatt Verlen's essay in Sublation Magazine instructs the left to quit complaining and start critiquing. History gave Trump a right. As of the moment of writing, this right continues to be denied to him. That right is the right to be critiqued."Read the new Sublation Essay by Wyatt Verlen:https://www.sublationmag.com/post/the-right-to-a-critiqueSupport Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

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64:41

Episode 634: Shibboleths, Customs, and Lies

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2025/04/28

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert discusses his novel, Shibboleth, with Nina Power and Douglas Lain in the Culture Corner. What does it mean to go to Oxford? What is the future of the elites and elite education? Can you find love on campus?Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

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82:16

Episode 633: What did Marx think about the American...

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2025/04/25

In this week's Spencer Leonard Hour, he discusses the meaning of the Civil War in relation to the struggle for socialism.Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

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74:46

Episode 632: Trump's Tariffs Are Smart?

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2025/04/24

Chris Cutrone discusses just what the aim of Trump's Tariffs might be. Will there be a new global order with the US still at the center? What does it mean to say that the United States is "FREE"? Is Trump just an idiot? Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

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69:09

Episode 631: Tariffs, First Amendement, and Due Process

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2025/04/21

Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss Trump's Tariffs, the attacks of law firms such as Perkins Coie, and how the deportations of MS-13 gang members undermine Due Process. Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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65:20

Episode 630: Understanding the Marxist Revisionism...

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2025/04/18

William Stratford discusses the dialectics and the revisionism dispute. What lessons can we learn from it today, after the long defeat of the 20th century and the Millennial left? Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

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50:57

Episode 629: Do Young Americans Have a Manifest Destiny?

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2025/04/17

Hamilton Craig is a Compact columnist and a doctoral student at CUNY researching farmers’ movements in the United States. In this episode of Diet Soap, he discusses his recent essay for Compact entitled "The Democratic Promise of Manifest Destiny" with Douglas Lain and tries to consider just how seriously to take Trump's effort to revitalize and reinvent our Manifest Destiny and discuss Cutrone's essay "The Future Belongs to America. So Should Greenland."Support Sublation

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87:12

Episode 628: Trump is ENDING Neoliberalism as the...

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2025/04/11

Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the meaning of the term "neoliberalism" and the ignominious end of the previous regime of accumulation. Cutrone takes Studebaker to task over their differences in conceptualizing neoliberalism, highlighting contrasting interpretations of its historical and ideological implications.Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

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59:43

Episode 627: Experiencing the Symptoms of the Left

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2025/04/07

Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss the Platypus Affiliated Society convention and a few of the questions raised on our panels: What was neoliberalism?Why does Society have Politics?Join the Sublation Patreon for a second hour of discussion:https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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96:02

Episode 626: Horkheimer on Reason, Egoism, and Freedom

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2025/04/03

Spencer Leonard discusses the Frankfurt School's Marxism, how these Marxists are still relevant to us today, and explains Horkheimer's "Egoism and Freedom Movements: On the Anthropology of the Bourgeois Epoch." Support Sublation Media and Listen to the Second Half:https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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54:11

Episode 625: From FAKE NEWS to a FAKE WORLD

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2025/03/21

David Shields, author of "How We Got Here," returns to discuss how Trump has destroyed our reality and how our sensemaking institutions are in crisis. How can we educate ourselves and get a grip on the world if everything is FAKE NEWS?Get a copy of Shield's book "How We Got Here"https://sublationmedia.com/product/how-we-got-here-melville-plus-nietzsche-divided-by-the-square-root-of-allan-bloom-times-zizek-squared-equals-bannon-by-david-shields/Support Sublation

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95:18

Episode 624: A New World Order or a New Chaos?

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2025/03/14

Chris Cutrone assuages Douglas Lain's fears as they survey the wreckage of Trump's first 50 days in office. Is Trump an amateur just throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks? Yes? Is he a world historic figure who aims to rearrange the world order? Yes again?Watch the second half of this podcast on Patreon, and join a Zoom call afterparty conversation with other socialists and thinkers.https://pareon.com/dietsoapChris Cutrone's "Marxism and Politics" was paused for a time as

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Episode 623: Unpacking Anti-Imperialism and the Labor...

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2025/03/07

The historian Spencer Leonard joins Doug to discuss the history of the term "labor aristocracy" and unpack the meaning of anti-imperialism today.

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