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Chris Cutrone is the author of the book "The Death of the Millennial Left" which is coming out soon from Sublation Media.  In this first installment of The Cutronezone, a podcast that we hope will become a regular feature on this channel, Chris discusses the current political crisis as a crisis of democracy.

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Ashley Frawley interviews Spencer Leonard and discusses the meaning of Karl Marx's "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." 

Read Spencer Leonard's Book Marx and Engels on Imperialism: Selected Journalism, 1856–62
https://www.amazon.com/Marx-Engels-Imperialism-Selected-Journalism/dp/1498559239

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Johannes Regell is a Swedish socialist from Västervik, a former member of the Västervik municipality council, and an author for the Platypus Affiliated Society's journal. In this episode of Diet Soap he discusses his essay, "Results not achieved and prospects graveled: Evaluation of the activities of the Socialists in Västervik and Sweden 2006–22."

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https://platypus1917.org/category/pla...

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Adrian Johnston is the author of "Zizek's Ontology" and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. Chris Cutrone is the author of the upcoming Sublation Media book, "The Death of the Millennial Left,"  teaches Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In this video they debate the relative merits of the Slovenian Lacan Left and the Freudian Frankfurt School tradition.

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Conrad Hamilton describes his essay "The Socialism of Shipwrecks" with Douglas Lain. Hamilton's essay in Sublation describes both Cameron's "Titanic" and Östlund’s "Triangle of Sadness."   

The Socialism of Shipwrecks by Conrad Hamilton
https://www.sublationmag.com/post/the-socialism-of-shipwrecks

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Jodi Dean is the author of the esay "Neofeudalism-The end of capitalism?" in the LA Review of Books, the essay "Same As It Ever Was?" in the New Left Review,  and “Capitalism is turning itself into neofeudalism” in e-flux. She is also the author of the books, "Blog Theory," "The Communist Horizon," and "Aliens in America," amongst many others. In this episode of Diet Soap she discusses neofeudalism with Sublation's Ashley Frawley.

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Douglas Lain and Todd McGowan discuss the need to regulate or control speech during a pandemic, vaccine mandates, and the difference between State power and the power of Capital. How should we understand the role of the Department of Homeland Security in a time of political and economic crisis? 
McGowan's book for Sublation, Enjoyment Right and Left, will be released as an audiobook through the Sublation Media website on May 1st. 

Enjoyment Right and Left by Todd McGowan
https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/enjoyment-right-%26-left

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Marxist writer Ralph Leonard joins Ashley Frawley for a conversation about how Marx embraced the Greek myth of Prometheus. Can a socialist party emerge that would aim at realizing and transcending modern liberal forms of freedom? Or is socialism REALLY Dead? 

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Derick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss how Aristotlean reason is sublated in Hegel's ontologized logic. This is a response to Chris Cutrone's appearance on the Diet Soap episode entitled "The Last Marxist vs. 20th Century Philosophy." 
Patreon Supporters will get to hear Doug and Derick apply logical rigor to Cutron'es "Why not Trump?" and Cooney's "Left-Trumpists: The Reactionary Case of Chris Cutrone."

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Chris Cutrone follows up with Douglas Lain on the topic of postmodernism and politics. Is there a rational kernel in the postmodern abyss? Was Foucault a Marxist? Was Heidegger a Marxist??? FInd out.

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