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 425: Is the Social Justice Bureaucracy a Vampire Castle?
Ryan and Lavit discuss Mark Fisher's 2013 essay "Exiting the Vampire Castle" and Ryan Grimm's Intercept essay "The Elephant in the Zoom." How has it happened that the Vampire Castle Fisher described as a trap for the radical left has come to define the progressive bureaucracy? Why are the institutions ranging from the ACLU to the Audubon Society so woke as to be crippled by internal strife and crisis?
Mark Fisher's Exiting the Vampire Castle Essay
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/
Ryan Grim's "Elephant in the Zoom"
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/
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