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 122 episodes. That works out to roughly 150 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 2 days ago, with 39 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.