Diet Soap - a podcast

 In this episode, Spencer and Doug talk about the neo-social democracy of Jacobin and Compact, the crisis of neoliberalism, and the Left's need for political independence. 

Jason Myles from TIR has written an article about the LA Riots of '92 that will appear in Sublation Magazine this week. In this episode we discuss his article, the limits of liberal anti-racism, and the reality of living in poverty. 

This week's Pop the Left was set up as a conversation about Guy Debord and the errors of the Situationist Internationale but ended up being a conversation about the sexual revolution, Roe vs. Wade, and the question of the party. As always, Chris Cutrone pushes against the current limits of "left" politics on this week's Pop the Left.

How did Lacan naturalize the failure of Marxism? What is critical about the Frankfurt School? Doug speaks with Andreas and Stefan about the Frankfurt School and about how the Left takes up psychoanalysis in its understanding of freedom and socialism.GCAS Belfast Seminar “The Lack of Desire and the Desire of Lack: The Body, Conversion, and Art”https://gcascollege.ie/belfastSupport Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

The launch of Sublation Media's new Online Magazine, Sublation Magazine began with a six-hour stream. Guests included Conrad Hamilton, Katerina Kolozova, Dwayne Munroe, Teo Velissaris, Rebeka Parler, Ben Burgis, James Smith, Chris Cutrone, and others. This is a six and a half hour stream. https://www.sublationmag.comFollow us on Twitter @SublationMag   Support US on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap

Matt Huber is a professor of geography at Syracuse University. His new book, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, will be out from Verso Books in May, 2022. His book discusses the failures of an environmental movement built dominated by the Professional Managerial Class.Check out this GCAS Seminar with Chris Hedges and Boris Franklinhttps://gcascollege.ie/voice-seminar

Daniel Burnfin is a member of Class Unity and has participated in a few Platypus Affiliated Society panels, most recently at the international convention in Chicago. Douglas Lain first reached out to Burnfin after Burnfin's contribution to the “Class and the Left” panel, but in this video they discuss the panel "What is Leadership for the Left?"

Sublation editor Ashley Frawley discusses a chapter out of her upcoming monograph on how the politics of mental health have subverted the politics of freedom. In this conversation, Doug and Ashley specifically discuss how UK Universities took up a new project. No longer so interested in knowledge and reason, today's universities aim to make their students sane...or do they?  GCAS Seminar with Chris Hedges and Boris Franklinhttps://gcascollege.ie/voice-seminar 

Zupančič argues that sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology. Sexuality and knowledge are structured around a fundamental negativity, which unites them at the point of the unconscious. The unconscious (as linked to sexuality) is the concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity.

This conversation with Spencer Leonard on the depoliticization of the left was originally released as a patron-only "parrot room" podcast.  I'm releasing it to the public today because I believe the conversation deserves a wider audience, especially in the context of today's Imperialist conflict in Ukraine. Patrons get content like this every week.