Diet Soap - a podcast

Susanna Kleeman, the author of the novel Twice, announces her upcoming podcast/video series Fatal Dates. Fatal Dates is a show about real connections in unreal times, it's about men and women, it's about love and lovelessness. Picking up on Baudrillard's book Fatal Strategies, Kleeman will attempt to move beyond reason and modernity into the abyss and mystery of the symbolic, and she'll do it one virtual date at a time. Doug's CGAS Seminar on Radical Podcastinghttps://gcascollege.ie/radical-content-producerSupport Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap 

Chris Cutrone of the Platypus Affiliated Society returns in order to both defend and transcend what Moishe Postone called "Traditional Marxism." The conversation is, as always, freewheeling and covers a variety of topics. Watch Doug try to keep up as Cutrone gallops ahead.

 Conrad Hamilton's recent essay for Sublation Magazine "On Marx's Labor Certificates" is the topic of this week's Diet Soap podcast, although the conversation begins with a discussion of culture...specifically Conrad discusses Doug's discovery of My Chemical Romance's 2006 hit "Teenagers" and his inexplicable obsession with the song. On Marx's Labor Certificates by Conrad Hamiltonhttps://www.sublationmag.com/post/on-marx-and-labor-certificatesSupport Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap 

Mike Taber has edited and prepared a number of books related to the history of revolutionary and working-class movements—from collections of documents of the Communist International under Lenin to works by James P. Cannon, Leon Trotsky, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Maurice Bishop, and Nelson Mandela. His book Under the Socialist Banner is a collection of the resolutions of the Second International from 1889 to 1912. 

This video compares the Hegel of Zizek to the Hegel of Adorno, by considering Adorno’s theory of nonidentity to Zizek’s theory of the gap or parallax. And in an effort to make these abstractions from critical theory concrete and fun, in order to make these theories simple enough for idiots like myself to understand, I turn to the absurdist science fiction film “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” to provide some illustrations.Support Us On Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

 Ashley Frawley is hard at work revising her upcoming book "Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age," and therefore this week, rather than interview an author from Sublation Magazine, Doug and Ashley will discuss the death of the subject, mindfulness, and emotions.  Significant Emotions by Ashley Frawleyhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Significant-Emotions-Rhetoric-Problems-Vulnerable/dp/1350026794 

Deep State Kuba and Stefan Bertram Lee discuss the state of the war in Ukraine and speculate that the Ukrainian counter-offensive may have changed the outcome of the war. Certainly Russia has lost the special military action. What will come next given that Putin has upgraded the conflict to a war officially and is mobilizing more Russian forces? 

Conrad Hamilton and Eliot Rosenstock discuss the history and rebirth of the Sublation Socialists Facebook Group. This is an episode where some dirty laundry is aired in public. Check out Sublation Socialistshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/61364...Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

Chris Cutrone stops by to discuss his essay for Compact magazine entitled "Bourgeois Heroes." Cutrone approaches the Netflix original series Ozark from the perspective of a paranoid critic, or a critic who, in Adorno's words: "overestimates its object and exaggerates its meaning, using the microcosm of the cultural phenomenon to illuminate the surrounding social world."Bourgeois Heroes by Chris Cutronehttps://compactmag.com/article/bourgeois-heroesSupport Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

Anarchist podcaster Cyber Dandy joins Douglas Lain for a special edition of the Diet Soap podcast. They discuss the British Wing of the Situationist International, why it was that situationists were beloved by anarchists in the UK, and how the relationship between Debord's small Marxist sect and the long struggle for socialism.