Diet Soap - a podcast
a critical theory podcast
Douglas Lain
Show overview
Diet Soap - a podcast has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 116 episodes. That works out to roughly 140 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 2m and 1h 21m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 33 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 58 episodes published. Published by Douglas Lain.
From the publisher
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 Diet Soap podcast. The podcast is where we continue to interrogate the left and each other while having a good time.
Latest Episodes
View all 116 episodesEpisode 697: Chris Cutrone on the MOU
Episode 696: Fatal Friends: Did The US Eat Europe?
Episode 695: Spencer Leonard Discusses America
Episode 694: Is KITSCH All There Is?
Episode 693: Cutrone Responds to Rockhill's Fans
Episode 692: Decoding Chomsky and Epstein
Episode 691: Cutrone's New Film: The Last Election
Episode 690: History, Acting, and Perception
Episode 689: From China to the World
Episode 688: Protestantism Exported to Africa
Episode 687: Project Freedom? (War is Politics by Other Means)
Episode 686: An Example of Petulant Millennial Statism
Episode 685: Spencer Leonard on Why Rousseau Still Matters
Episode 684: Jeffrey Epstein's Necrophilia
Episode 683: Chris Cutrone on Trump's Version of "Regime Change"
Episode 682: Noam Chomsky and an Emasculated Left?
Ep 681Episode 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
Ep 680Episode 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
Ep 679Episode 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
Ep 678Episode 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-and-abortionSupport Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap