Diet Soap - a podcast
The Diet Soap podcast started in 2009 as a response to the 2008 economic crisis. It has evolved over time, becoming the podcast for a critical theory imprint based in the UK. Currently, it is part of Sublation Media, which includes book publishing, a magazine, and YouTube videos on theory and politics. The podcast continues to interrogate leftist politics and theory while maintaining a conversational tone.
Episodes
Episode 703: Adorno on Class Politics and Late Capitalism
In this episode of the Cutrone Zone, Chris takes on the pedagogical task of reassessing what class politics are, what they were, and what they might be. He recapitulates two essays by Theodor Adorno:Imaginative Excesses:https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/readings/adorno_imaginativeexcesses.pdfLate Capitalism or Industrial Society?https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/
Episode 702: Why Has Elite Theory Captured the Left?
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss Cutrone's essay: "Was Lenin PMC?"In this podcast, they discuss how James Burnham's work on the managerial revolution and his conservatism infected and directed left discourse.Was Lenin PMC? by Chris Cutronehttps://www.sublationmag.com/post/was-lenin-pmc-how-elite-theory-doesn-t-fit-the-movement-for-socialismSupport Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/
Episode 701: Spencer Leonard on the Jacobins
In this episode of the Spencer Leonard Hour, the professor of Marxism discusses why commies prefer the French Revolution to the American Revolution.Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 700: Wagner the Revolutionary
Jim Igor, aka The Perfect Wagnerite, discusses the contradictions and revolutionary potential of Wagner's operas. He argues that Wagner represents both the ambition towards freedom and the self-defeat of the bourgeois revolution. Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 699: The New DSA and the Death of the Left
In this CutroneZone, the Last Marxist evaluates the political significance of the rise of the DSA candidates in the Democratic Party. What does this mean for the left at it's future? Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 698: What if Reality is Real?
Christopher Norris discusses his contribution to the 2007 collection "Adventures in Realism" entitled "Realism and Anti-Realism in Contemporary Philosophy: What's Truth Got to Do With It?" Rather than rehearse the philosophical arguments in the paper, Doug discusses the political import of analytic philosophy and realism. Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 697: Chris Cutrone on the MOU
In this episode of the CutroneZone, everyone's favorite contrarian discusses the meaning of the MOU, Israel's future decline, and the contemporary moment of post-neoliberalism. Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 696: Fatal Friends: Did The US Eat Europe?
Werner Rügemer discusses his book "Fatal Friendship: First Phase: From World War I to II." From the book jacket: Rising US capitalism presented itself to the world with freedom, democracy, and prosperity. However, the practices of America First-genocide, labor exploitation, and warlike plunder of foreign property-were merely modernized.The First World War became the first major global bus
Episode 695: Spencer Leonard Discusses America
As we approach the Semiquincentennial of the American Revolution, Spencer Leonard reflects on why we seem to be forgetting what it means. Spencer is a collaborator on the Sublation Media film in production now: Forgetting The American Revolution. Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 694: Is KITSCH All There Is?
Why must art be either avant-garde or Kitsch today? What could count as avant-garde art today? Should today's critics examine the formal techniques involved in the production of Kitsch? Is that all there is? Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 693: Cutrone Responds to Rockhill's Fans
The Last Marxist Chris Cutrone responds to his critics and to the defenders of Gabriel Rockhill. He also argues for the necessity of individual thought and a willingness to critique and oppose the majority. Support Sublation Mediahttps:patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 692: Decoding Chomsky and Epstein
Chris Knight is a political activist and the author of the book "Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics." In this episode of Diet Soap, Knight discusses Chomsky's legacy, his role within the military industrial complex, and the meaning of the Epstein scandal.Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 691: Cutrone's New Film: The Last Election
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss their new film entitled "The Last Election." Film description: In 1992, the dissident writer Douglas Lain ran a rubber goldfish for president and declared himself a surrealist. In 2024, he took a group of young Marxists to both the RNC and the DNC. This film is the result.Purchase the Film: The Last Election:https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-electio
Episode 690: History, Acting, and Perception
Rudi Greiser and Douglas Lain discuss the various approaches to acting that have developed in the West. How should a new Avant Garde, a new Expansivist Realist theatre, understand the history of and techniques deployed by actors.Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 689: From China to the World
Chris Cutrone discusses how China fits into the Global Capitalist order and how we should understand the way the world works today.Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 688: Protestantism Exported to Africa
Ethiopia’s Pentay are among the largest evangelical communities in the world, having grown from about 5% of the population in the 1980s to roughly a quarter today. M Rowton's essay "White Fields" in Sublation Magazine presents an expansive realist understanding of the Pentay movement. White Fields by M. Rowtonhttps://www.sublationmag.com/post/white-fieldsSupport Sublation Media https://pa
Episode 687: Project Freedom? (War is Politics by Other Means)
Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss Trump's new gambit: Project Freedom. Has this already led to an escalation back into combat? Is Trump falling into the escalation trap? What will this do to the markets? Are the walls finally closing in on Trump?Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 686: An Example of Petulant Millennial Statism
Chris Cutrone and "Tibor Szamuely" discuss the essay Belinksy Meets MAGA, which was recently published on the Sublation Substack. This Substack will be changing its character this month as Expansive Realism is introduced. Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 685: Spencer Leonard on Why Rousseau Still Matters
Spencer Leonard follows up on Monday's livestream on Bonpartism with a conversation about the concept of society, the significance of modernity, and the question of Rousseau's anarchism. Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 684: Jeffrey Epstein's Necrophilia
Ashley Frawley returns to discuss her recent essay for Compact entitled "Jeffrey Epstein's Necrophilia." Ashley's Essay at Compact:https://www.compactmag.com/article/jeffrey-epsteins-necrophilia-and-ours/Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 683: Chris Cutrone on Trump's Version of "Regime Change"
Chris Cutrone discusses his essay for Sublation Magazine based on his recent presentation at the Platrypus Affiliated Society convention.Trump's Not Regime Change at Sublation Magazinehttps://www.sublationmag.com/post/trump-s-not-regime-change-in-iran-name-vs-substance Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 682: Noam Chomsky and an Emasculated Left?
Arturo Desimone discusses how the contemporary left targets individuality, creativity, and masculinity for cancellation. He uses Noam Chomsky as an example.His Essay at Counterpunch:https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/13/against-cancellation-chomsky-and-the-cyclical-emasculation-of-the-left/Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 681: Spencer Leonard on Habermas
Spencer Leonard from the Platypus Affiliated Society discusses the politics of Habermas and how Moishe Postone's critique of Habermas both landed and missed.Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 680: Chris Cutrone on the Democrats and Iran
In this episode of the Cutrone Zone, the Last Marxist describes how to separate the propaganda from reality, and declares that this is Trump's World and we're just living in it.Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 679: Analyzing the FRIENDS Technique
Rudi Grieser and Douglas Lain discuss the history of the sitcom and the techniques deployed in the television show FRIENDS. How did the FRIENDS machine operate? What were the elements deployed in the production of FRIENDS?Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 678: Reproductive Freedom in a Wrong Life?
Ethan Linehan discusses his 2022 essay for Sublation Magazine entitled, "Wrong Life and Abortion." In the essay he critique's Conrad Hamilton's article "Abortion, Capitalism, and Demographic Control" and discusses how a living socialist movement would approach the question of reproduction and freedom.Wrong Life and Abortion at Sublation Magazinehttps://www.sublationmag.com/post/wrong-life
Episode 677: Cutrone asks: What if the US wins?
In this Cutrone Zone, the Last Marxist asks: What if Trump and America actually win this conflict with Iran? Cutrone insists this is Trump's world and we just live in it. Not because this is a good thing, but because it's a political reality (Cutrone says). Who does it serve to think otherwise?Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 676: The Death of Habermas
In this episode of Sublation Magazine, Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss the significance of Habermas. Can we still learn from the junior member of the Frankfurt School? Can there be Communicative Action? Support Sublation MediaHttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 675: Iran Still Under the Islamist Thumb
Mani is a member of the Expansive Realist Workshop in Portland, Oregon, an Iranian ex-pat, and an MD. In this episode of the Diet Soap podcast, he discusses the attacks on Iran, the Islamic Republic, Christopher Hitchens, and his hopes for an emancipated Iran. Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 674: The Anti-War Movement?
Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain continue to discuss the war on Iran. How should the left respond to the war on Iran? What was revolutionary defeatism? Will there be a draft? Can the US avoid a ground war? Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 673: Trump's Plan for Iran is Rational and Coherent
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss Trump's invasion of Iran as an example of bourgeois politics. Rather than condemning the invasion from the perspective of neoliberalism, they neither condemn nor support but describe. Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 672: How To React Without a Left?
Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss the likely effect of the attacks on Iran. Where will this go next? What motivated the Trump administration? Who will run Iran now? Support Sublation Mediahttps;//patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 671: C Wright Mills & Sociology's Problem With Marx
Join Spencer Leonard and Douglas Lain on "The Spencer Leonard Hour" as they engage in a systematic study of the history of sociology. They explore the intricate relation between sociological imagination and Marxist theory. This discussion offers a clear perspective on the economy through a socialist lens.Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 670: Why Socialists Should LOVE America
Chris Cutrone speaks out in defense of the American Revolution as vital to the struggle for socialism.Why Marxists loved Americahttps://www.sublationmag.com/post/why-marxists-loved-americaSupport Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 669: Try Being Civil?
Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss the question of civility in politics. What is the purpose of the principle of charity? Is civility a hindrance to politics? Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 668: Noam Chomsky’s reputation will never recover
Ralph Leonard, freelance writer for Sublation Magazine and the New Statesman among other publications, joins Doug to discuss the career and reputation of Noam Chomsky and discuss his recent article on Chomsky that appeared in the New Statesman:Ralph Leonard on Chomsky in the New Statesmanhttps://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/02/noam-chomskys-reputation-will-never-recover-from-the-epstei
Episode 667: Is Trump Ushering In an AI Dystopia?
Chris Cutrone discusses how Trump, Elon, International Capital, and Capital itself are ushering in a world littered with personal robots, self-driving cars, AI therapists, and other Kitsch Crap that could easily have been lifted from an old issue of Amazing Stories. Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 666: Are You ALREADY Dead?
Danny Mulligan and Douglas Lain discuss Ernest Becker, death anxiety, and modernity in this episode of the Diet Soap Podcast.Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 665: Chris Cutrone on IRAN
Douglas Lain and Chris Cutrone discuss the uprisings in Iran and their meaning within the history of the left.Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 664: Chris Cutrone on Jared Kushner and Gaza
Chris Cutrone discusses the recent peace deal in Gaza and how it came about. Doug and Chris discuss a recent 60 Minutes interview with Kushner and Witkoff. Interview on 60 Minutes:https://youtu.be/dNa6PcU1Ke0?si=IrN7-Gy9XPzaTU0wSupport Sublation Media on Patreon:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 663: Spencer Leonard on Trump's Attacks on the Left
In this episode of the Spencer Leonard hour Professor Leonard discusses the new executive orders from the Trump administration, orders that specifically target "anti-capitalists" and "antifa."Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 662: Did Marxism Die With Charlie Kirk?
In this Spencer Leonard Hour, we discuss how Marxism rose up in the last fifteen years only to fall away again. What destroyed the burgeoning neo-Marxist movement?Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 661: Why We Can't Think About Charlie Kirk
Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the aftermath. Is America entering into a rerun of the Years of Lead? What was Operation Gladio? Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 660: After Charlie Kirk: a Strategy of Tension?
Sublation Magazine editor Wyatt Verlen discusses who Charlie Kirk was and why he is beloved on the right. Wyatt left socialism to join the right a few years ago and is making his way back to the left now as he works for Sublation. Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 659: Forming a Socialist Cult, Forming a Socialist Strategy
Chris Cutrone discusses how socialists should create a movement and party in the United States that will resemble, and potentially even be, a religious cult as it gets started.Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 658: How to Debate a Zoomer "Liberal"
This is the first half of a podcast Doug recorded with Dillon of the Untrodden podcast. It includes comments from Doug along the way. Dillon defines himself as a "liberal," but by the end of the conversation, it is clear that he is a product of our authoritarian times and not self-reflective enough yet at the age of 21 to overcome the ideological machinery he's trapped in, even in terms o
Episode 657: Leftist Theory in Crisis: Wallerstein’s Unfulfilled Transition
In this episode of the CutroneZone, Chris and Doug revisit "The Age of Transition: Trajectories in the World-System" by Immanuel Wallerstein. They walk through Wallerstein’s forecasts for the year 2025 and examine where World Systems Theory succeeded, where it fell short, and what the failures tell us about the Left’s theoretical models.The Age of Transition by Immanuel Wallerstein: https
Episode 656: Finkelstein, Burgis & McManus Misunderstand Marx
Spencer Leonard responds to a recent episode of Give Them an Argument. Norman Finkelstein, Matt McManus, and Ben Burgis all attempted to defend J.S. Mill from Karl Marx, and in the process demonstrated their failure to understand Marx's criticisms of Mill. Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 655: Why International Law Won't Help Gaza
Douglas Lain speaks with writer and artist Arturo Desimone, who recently attended the Emergency Conference of the Hague Group on Palestine, held in Bogotá, Colombia, in July 2025.Billed as a bold step by Global South nations to enforce international law and support Palestinian rights, the summit ended with non-binding measures, including calls for an arms embargo and support for ICC/ICJ r
Episode 654: A Call for Socialist Unity
Chris Cutrone discusses his recent essay in Sublation Magazine entitled "Socialist unity!"Excerpt:The current framework of politics and law in capitalism is severely limited, and geared to other needs: the needs and “rights” of capital. But the workers depend on capital and capitalism: their contradiction must be brought about; for now there is an apparent identity of interests — which ca
Episode 653: The Left is Stuck in a Time Loop with Zohran
Dan Davison discusses his essay for Sublation Magazine entitled "Stuck in a time loop? Mamdani and the Left’s Amnesia" on this episode of Diet Soap. Here's an excerpt:Leftists are brimming with joy that Mamdani’s platform has (apparently) shown the world how to build a winning socialist campaign that brings together and highlights the connections between “material” concerns on the one han
Episode 652: What Musk and Trump Still Have in Common
Chris Cutrone discusses his recent essay for Compact entitled "What Musk and Trump Still Have in Common." Why did Musk and Trump break up? What can we learn about capitalist politics by asking this question? Is Musk mentally ill? Is Trump sad? Find out.Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 651: Are We Still Living After the End of History?
Stanley Sharpey joins Douglas Lain to discuss Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book "The End of History and the Last Man," as well as Fukuyama's attempt to defend and return to this work over the last 33 years. Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 650: What is History?
Spencer Leonard discusses Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" with Douglas Lain. He raises the question, "Can a Marxist be an historian?"Support Sublation Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 649: Big Beautiful Politics (Same as it Ever Was?)
Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss Elon Musk's new political party, Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, and Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History.Support Sublation Media:https://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 648: The Last Marxist Explains the conflict with IRAN
Chris Cutrone describes how the left's history of supporting right-wing reaction in the Middle East has led to this moment of conflict, whether Trump was planning the attack on Iran all along, and the reason we should assume good faith on all sides when considering world politics. Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 647: How Socialists Should Understand American Conservatism
What is American conservatism, and how should socialists understand it? In this interview, Wyatt Verlen offers a historical overview of conservatism in the United States, from the Bourbon Democrats and Robert Taft to William F. Buckley and the rise of the New Right. We explore how conservatism evolved in response to the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Cold War, and examine the role
Episode 646: Bonapartism is not Bonaparte
Chris Cutrone explains why the left needs to abandon the liberal conception of "Bonapartism" and take up a Marxist understanding instead. Bonapartism is not Bonaparte at the Platypus Reviewhttps://platypus1917.org/2025/06/01/bonapartism-is-not-bonaparte/Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 645: The Discreet Charm of the PMC
Stanley Sharpey is a writer and a socialist living in London. His essay for Sublation Magazine, "The Discreet Charm of the PMC" explains the history of the term and ends up sympathizing with the Ehrenreichs given the political dilemma they faced in the 1970s.The Discreet Charm of the PMC at Sublation Magazinehttps://www.sublationmag.com/post/the-discreet-charm-of-the-pmcSupport Sublation
Episode 644: History, Matter, Marx
Spencer Leonard discusses the meaning of the term "Historical Materialism," and how it emerged through the historical struggle for socialism. Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 643: When Critical Theory is Confirmed
Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss Adorno's essay "Commitment" and the failure of leftist politics over the last decade. What level of regression can we expect?Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap
Episode 642: Chris Cutrone is Always Right, and Always Depressed
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
Episode 641: Trump Wins Again and Again?
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/Supp
Episode 640: Neither the US nor China
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
Episode 639: How Society Got a Sex Change
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 i
Episode 638: Studebaker Says Democracies Can Cry
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
Episode 637: Tariffs and Thought Taboos
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-itselfSuppor
Episode 636: The Prophecy of Walter Kirn
Novelist and journalist Walter Kirn discusses his 2006 novel "The Unbinding" and answers questions like:Was Holden Caulfield 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
Episode 635: Can We Critique Rather than Complain?
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/di
Episode 634: Shibboleths, Customs, and Lies
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
Episode 633: What did Marx think about the American Civil War?
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
Episode 632: Trump's Tariffs Are Smart?
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
Episode 631: Tariffs, First Amendement, and Due Process
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
Episode 630: Understanding the Marxist Revisionism Dispute
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
Episode 629: Do Young Americans Have a Manifest Destiny?
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 C
Episode 628: Trump is ENDING Neoliberalism as the Left WATCHES
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
Episode 627: Experiencing the Symptoms of the Left
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
Episode 626: Horkheimer on Reason, Egoism, and Freedom
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
Episode 625: From FAKE NEWS to a FAKE WORLD
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-
Episode 624: A New World Order or a New Chaos?
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 a
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