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Diet Soap - a podcast


Latest Episodes

Alternatives: The Horror Vanguard
April 28, 2019

C Derick Varn and JG Michaels discuss the vanguard of horror in this new episode of Alternatives. Alternatives examines the countercultural, or searches for a counterculture in a era when culture is so fragmented that there may no longer be a singular ...

Zero Squared #197: Heidi Matthews, Joe Biden, and #MeToo
April 24, 2019

Professor Heidi Matthews researches and teaches in the areas of international criminal law, the law of war, international legal history and political theory. She is also the host of the HMOD (or Heidi Matthews on Demand) podcast.

Zero Squared #196: More On Exchange Value with Ben [teaser]
April 18, 2019

Benjamin Lain is a math and computer science student at the University of Oregon, a member of the YDS, and my son. In this episode of the Zero Books podcast we continue our conversation about Karl Marx, Capital,

Zero Squared #195: The Death of the Trump/Russia Conspiracy Theory
April 12, 2019

Michael Tracey is a freelance journalist who has written for publications including VICE, The Daily Beast, The American Conservative, and The Guardian and he was formerly a reporter for TYT. Tracey is also a member of a small set of leftish Russia coll...

Zero Squared #194: David Harvey, Marx’s Value, and Exchange pt. 1 [teaser]
April 04, 2019

Benjamin Lain (@chickenfrend) is an undergraduate math and computer science student at the University of Oregon, a member of the U of O’s YDS chapter, and my oldest son. This week he joins me to discuss Marx’s theory of Value, David Harvey,

Symptomatic Redness: Tad Tietze on Anti-Politics (part 2) [teaser]
April 01, 2019

Derick Varn continues his conversation withTad Tietze about anti-politics. Tietze blogs at Left Flank, tweets as @Dr_Tad, and has a book coming out from Verso books. From an essay by Tietze and Elizabeth Humphrys: Anti-politics and the Illusions of Neo...

Zero Squared #193: Social Democracy and Dead Pundits
March 27, 2019

Adam Proctor is the host of the Dead Pundits society and the guest on this week's episode of the Zero Squared podcast. Adam and I discuss just what a social democrat looks like, the base vs. superstructure split, crass economism,

Symptomatic Redness: Tad Tietze on Anti-Politics
March 24, 2019

Derick Varn talks to Tad Tietze about anti-politics. Tietze blogs at Left Flank, tweets as @Dr_Tad, and has a book coming out from Verso books. From an essay by Tietze and Elizabeth Humphrys: Anti-politics and the Illusions of Neoliberalism We live in ...

Zero Squared #192: Stepp’d n Blood [teaser]
March 21, 2019

Andrew Wallis is a freelance journalist, academic, and author, and a leading expert in the African Great Lakes Region, especially Rwanda. His previous book, "Silent Accomplice: The role of France in the Rwandan genocide' was praised as a 'damning new b...

Symptomatic Redness: Jamie Curcio on Philosophy and Fiction [teaser]
March 17, 2019

This week's Symptomatic Redness is available in full for our Patreon supporters. The co-founder of the “Evolving Media Network” media collective, author of the novel Join My Cult! (published by New Falcon Press) and the founder of the band Babalon.