The Lack is a weekly podcast from political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher Nina Power and filmmaker Helen Rollins. We take a work each week (film, poem, essay, book...) and relate it to a philosophical theme for a wide-ranging discussion about ideas, culture and society. Each week, there is an A-side public episode and a B-side, patreon only, private episode. You can subscribe to our patreon at https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcast Our email contact is thelackpodcast@gmail.com. O ...
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This episode is on The Land, the 1969 Egyptian film that debuted in the west in 1970. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2008 film, Doubt. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2007 film, No Country for Old Men. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2010 film, Of Gods and Men. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1979 film, Breaking Away. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2000 film, Bamboozled. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2023 film, American Fiction. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on Nathan Fielder's lastest TV show, The Curse. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2023 film, May December. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2023 film, Saltburn. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1945 film, Leave Her to Heaven. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2022 film, The Banshees of Inisherin. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2006 film, Idiocracy. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1993 film, Demolition Man. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1983 film, Videodrome. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2021 film, The Worst Person in the World. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2023 film Borderline. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2000 Danish film, Baenken. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2008 French film, 35 Shots of Rum. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1968 British film If... To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on Benjamin's new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. It's available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28210-2 To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is about 2015 Greek film Chevalier (not the 2023 film about the violinist). To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on a 1993 article called "Wounded Attachments" by Wendy Brown. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1982 film Querelle, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and based on the novel by Jean Genet. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon.By Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2022 film Triangle of Sadness. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2022 Netflix documentary Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2022 film The Whale. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the forthcoming 2023 film Eco Village. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2021 film The Good Boss. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2022 film Tár. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is about the 2008 film Enjoy Poverty. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2006 film The Page Turner. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the TV series F is For Family. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2022 television series Severance. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2008 film, I've Loved You So Long. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2017 film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1940 film Gaslight. It's available to watch online for free here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYmtzaHwCKo&ab_channel=TheSmokingHat To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2003 film The Dreamers. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2016 film Hell or High Water. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2022 film Blonde. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2022 documentary film What is a Woman? To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2011 film Carnage. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode on the 1963 film Contempt, directed by the late Jean-Luc Godard. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on Archetypes, an ongoing podcast by the Duchess of Sussex. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1964 novel Clans of the Alphane Moon, by Philip K. Dick. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on a current TV series, HBO's The Rehearsal. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2021 film Rien à Foutre. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1962 novel The Wanting Seed, by Anthony Burgess. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 1991 Isao Takahata film Only Yesterday. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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This episode is on the 2017 film Ingrid Goes West. To hear the B-side, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelackpodcastBy Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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