Diet Soap Podcast

The guest this week would probably not call himself a philosopher, but he is the man behind the books the Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, and now The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International. The guest? McKenzie Wark.

I want to thank Tyson C for donating to the podcast this week. There are still 40 copies of my Urban Foraging, Situationist, Commie memoir “Pick Your Battle” and Mister C will be receiving his copy in the mail very soon. Those listeners to the podcasts who haven’t yet contributed but who would like to read the book, a six dollar donation is the minimum.

If you’d like to just write to me you can send email to me through my website which is douglaslain.com. Also I’m on twitter, facebook, google plus, linked in, youtube, amazon, stumbleupon, and my usenet group is alt.footfetish.philosophy

The clips you heard in the podcast included the the for the video game Myst, the most ancient song in the world which is entitled Seikilos and which was written about 2000 years ago in ancient greece. You also heard clips from Rick Roderick, an old Columbo episode, and a random youtube clip describing the difference between strategy and tactics.

Diet Soap Podcast #111: The Beach Beneath the Street

The guest this week is the Musician and podcaster Mark Linsenmayer. Mark is one of the three voices behind the Partially Examined Life podcast, which is a philosophy podcast that digs in on specific philosophical texts on a regular basis. We discuss what philosophy is and what it is for.

Thanks to Richard L, Paul H, John Y, and John E for donating to the podcast over the last week, and I want to remind everyone that those who donate $6 or more receive my strange philosophical memoir Pick Your Battle as a thank you gift. I should also remind everyone that there is a Facebook Community page for Diet Soap, that the Diet Soap blog is at dietsoapcast.com.

Also a quick shout out to Nigel B who stopped by the Diet Soap compound last week and who watched me drink martinis at the Delta Cafe. He’s the man behind the Ancient Gallery.

Diet Soap Podcast #110: Partially Examined Life

The guest this week is Anthony Peake, the author of several books including Cheating the Ferryman. Peake is a sufferer of migrane headaches, explorer of altered states of consciousness, near death experiences, deja experiences, and proponent of what I’ll risk characterizing as a mystical perspective on reality who is, at the same time, grounded and quite open intellectually and philosophically. I look forward to having him back on the show to discuss German idealism and specifically Fichte alongside the lucid dreaming phenomena. This means I’ll have to read some Fichte first, and I’ll be reading this icon of German idealism at Peake’s suggestion. This episode serves as a sort of introduction to the ideas that Anthony Peake and I will work to find the time to chew over in upcoming episodes. Facebook has shown itself to be something more than a timewaster here.

Diet Soap #107: The Déjà Experience

The guests this week are Michael Richardson and Marty Hollingsworth, the two voices behind the Flickers from the Cave podcast, which is actually not a philosophy podcast about Plato but a podcast mostly about B-grade movies. However, Micahel, Marty and I discuss the Jodorowsky’s cult classic “Holy Mountain” which is a film that Jodorowsky later claimed fell outside of the history of cinema and was beyond criticism.

Diet Soap Podcast #106: The Holy Mountain is a Movie

You can read a follow-up essay on this subject at Thought Catalog.

The guest this week is the philosopher and rhetor Daniel Coffeen and we discuss one of his favorite television programs: David Simon’s the Wire. We also discuss the nightmare of David Lynch, Deleuze, and the concept that Capital might be the one supposed to know.

I want to thank Benjamin W and Thom K for donating to the podcast. Five boxes of my Pick Your Battle book, weighing a total of 168 lbs are on their way to me as of today. They are scheduled to arrive on June 2nd, which is a week later than I’d anticipated, but they are on their way.

The sound collage includes music from Minecraft, sounds from Pacman, an old tv commercial featuring Mr. Hooper from Seasame street as Grandpa, as well as clips of Negativland, qbert, Computer Space, and of course my conversation with Ben about the Production of Space. In the next few days a video version of that collage will be going up on Thought Catalog, as well as a separate essay on the subject that approaches the same idea from a different direction.

Diet Soap Podcast #105: Television on the Wire

The guest this week is Antero Alli, the paratheatrical director and author of Angel Tech. Antero Alli will be in Portland on May 19th and May 20th to present his new film To Dream of Falling Upwards.

I want to thank Kim h and Penny R for donating to the podcast over the last week, and remind everyone that a donation of $6 or more will get you a copy of my new book Pick your Battle. I also want to thank Jason Rizos for creating a fantastic youtube video to help promote the book.

The collage essay at the end included clips from Symbiopsychotaxiplasm and Adam Sandler’s click. That was an essay I wrote for Thought Catalog and in order to help promote my other new book, a short story collection called Fall Into Time.

Diet Soap #104: To Dream of Falling Upwards