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.
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episode 538: The Failure of the European Left
Arturo Desimone writings on politics and culture has appeared in CounterPunch, Compact, openDemocracy, the Fortnightly Review, and Sublation Magazine. From 2018 to 2021 he was a co-founding member of the "Peace and International Policy" a subdivision of the "Democracy in Europe Movement" which concerned itself with the movement's critiques of EU foreign policy and security issues. In this episode of Diet Soap Arturo discusses the meaning of Yanis Varoufakis.