Zero Squared

Douglas Lain

a philosophy podcast from zero books

  • 55 minutes 36 seconds
    Episode 549: The Left Can't Make Use of the Gaza War?

    Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss Benjamin Studebaker's essay for Sublation Magazine entitled "The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War" and Doug reads the opening remarks he gave at the Platypus panel "From Politics to Protest" last week.

    The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War
     https://sublationmedia.com/the-left-cannot-make-use-of-the-gaza-war/

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    1 May 2024, 7:32 pm
  • 1 hour 39 minutes
    Episode 548: Was Adorno a Leninist?

    Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the essay "Do We Need Adorno?"  The essay was published in Nonsite in 2012 and is included in Cutrone's upcoming book "Marxism and Politics." 

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    26 April 2024, 5:58 pm
  • 35 minutes 39 seconds
    Episode 547: Breadtube and Woke/Anti-Woke Politics

    Peter Coffin joins Douglas Lain to discuss his book "Woke Ouroboros: Segregation and Essentialism" and the Breadtube controversy regarding plagiarism. 

    Peter's Book "Woke Ouroboros" on Amazon
    https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Ouroboros-Essentialism-Peter-Coffin-ebook/dp/B0BQ3XR447

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    25 April 2024, 5:51 pm
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    Episode 546: Highlights After 15 Years: Ben Burgis's Appearance and Beyond

    In this episode of the Sublation Magazine Show Ashley and Doug will discuss the 15 hour anniversary stream that we ran last week, tell you how you can still get access to the whole stream, and go over some of the highlights from those 15 hours including the argument Doug had with Ben Burgis. 

    24 April 2024, 5:43 pm
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    Episode 545: Blackrock's Lockdown and the Conformist Left

    Fabio Vighi joins the Malinformation channel as Sublation Media prepares to publish his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this episode Fabio critiques Slavoj Zizek's Capitalist Realism and describes how Blackrock is controlling and destroying the economy.

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    12 April 2024, 11:24 pm
  • 46 minutes 4 seconds
    Episode 544: Why Your Stalinism is a Mistake

    Jack Ross, author of "The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism," discusses the ideas in his book with Ashley Frawley. Jack goes slowly through the history and his own influences and antecdents as he explains how he's dropped the idea that "before their can be a decent left we need a decent right" and has instead embraced the more pessimistic notion that we have to start by rebuilding the "concept of the left." 

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    11 April 2024, 8:18 pm
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Episode 543: Responding to Midwestern Marxism's Anti-Frankfurt School Rant

    Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain respond to Midwestern Marxism's criticisms of the Frankfurt School and discuss Briahna Joy Gray's misstatements regarding the Twitter Files.

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    9 April 2024, 8:57 pm
  • 1 hour 46 minutes
    Episode 542: Why Not Trump, Again?

    Chris Cutrone discusses the third essay in his "Why Not Trump" series in the context of a US election wherein all sides are abandoning the constitutional order. Lawfare, the power of the executive, impeachments, and a many other topics are discussed in this episode of the Cutronezone. 

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    5 April 2024, 4:03 pm
  • 42 minutes 32 seconds
    Episode 541: Did Late Capitalism End Already?

    Kyle Baasch is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Minnesota and the author of the essay “Too Late for ‘Late Capitalism’” for Compact Magazine. In this episode of Diet Soap we discuss how the idea of "Late Capitalism" has changed and perhaps been emptied out of content over time. 

    Too Late for Late Capitalism by Kyle Baasch
    https://www.compactmag.com/article/too-late-for-late-capitalism/

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    4 April 2024, 4:26 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Episode 540: Fake News, Fake Left, War, Disease, Dogs and Cats Lying Together, Hysteria

    Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss how postmodernism lingers on in a political form, and how the remnants of the socialist left might find its way back to politics. Topics included: David Shields' documentary, the 2024 US election and Trump, the Strange Death of the American Creed, and can we feel good when things are this bad? 

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    2 April 2024, 7:15 pm
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Episode 539: Emergency Capitalism-Full Show from Rumble

    Fabio Vighi joins the Sublation channel as we are publishing his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this new series Fabio will help viewers keep track of the underlying economic conditions that are shaping our world in a time of emergency. Given the nature of these conversations only the first half of these shows will be available on YouTube. This podcast version of the show includes the entire conversation.

    29 March 2024, 1:50 pm
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