The Lack
By Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power
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Description
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.
Our music is by Dom Kirtley.
Our graphics are by Bryce Behrman.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
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Matewan
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May 08, 2026 |
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The Grapes of Wrath
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May 01, 2026 |
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Harvest
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Stranger (Fremmed: Det første opgør)
|
Apr 09, 2026 |
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The Conformist
|
Apr 02, 2026 |
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Zelig
|
Mar 22, 2026 |
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Dogville
|
Mar 12, 2026 |
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The Surfer
|
Mar 06, 2026 |
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The Boss of It All
|
Feb 26, 2026 |
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Peacock
|
Feb 17, 2026 |
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Stromboli
|
Feb 10, 2026 |
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Black Bag
|
Jan 22, 2026 |
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Heretic
|
Jan 11, 2026 |
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Black Narcissus
|
Jan 01, 2026 |
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The Shrouds
|
Dec 26, 2025 |
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Ordinary People
|
Dec 17, 2025 |
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The Big Chill
|
Dec 10, 2025 |
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Other People's Money
|
Dec 01, 2025 |
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The Devil's Advocate
|
Nov 21, 2025 |
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Persona
|
Nov 12, 2025 |
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The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
|
Nov 04, 2025 |
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The Witches of Eastwick
|
Oct 29, 2025 |
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Deliverance
|
Oct 22, 2025 |
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Pass Thru
|
Oct 09, 2025 |
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Bird (2024)
|
Oct 02, 2025 |
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I Am Mother
|
Sep 22, 2025 |
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The Iron Giant
|
Sep 08, 2025 |
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The Wild Robot
|
Aug 31, 2025 |
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Barry Lyndon
|
Aug 21, 2025 |
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A Separation
|
Aug 16, 2025 |
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
|
Aug 08, 2025 |
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The Leopard
|
Jul 30, 2025 |
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The Emerald Forest
|
Jul 22, 2025 |
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Babe: Pig in the City
|
Jul 10, 2025 |
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Apocalypto
|
Jul 04, 2025 |
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Anora
|
Jun 28, 2025 |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
Jun 08, 2025 |
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The Return of Martin Guerre
|
May 30, 2025 |
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Living in Oblivion
|
May 22, 2025 |
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
|
May 08, 2025 |
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Birth of a Nation
|
Apr 29, 2025 |
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Mickey 17
|
Apr 16, 2025 |
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Conclave
|
Apr 08, 2025 |
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Locke
|
Mar 21, 2025 |
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
|
Mar 05, 2025 |
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Eraserhead
|
Feb 25, 2025 |
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Funeral Parade of Roses
|
Feb 04, 2025 |
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Dreams
|
Jan 25, 2025 |
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Perfect Days
|
Jan 09, 2025 |
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Tuesday
|
Jan 03, 2025 |
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Søn of Dad (Live in London w/Helen Rollins)
|
Dec 23, 2024 |
|
Diva (1981)
|
Dec 12, 2024 |
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The Bikeriders
|
Nov 21, 2024 |
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The Substance
|
Nov 12, 2024 |
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Beau is Afraid
|
Nov 04, 2024 |
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Double Indemnity
|
Oct 28, 2024 |
|
Over the Garden Wall
|
Oct 16, 2024 |
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Vertigo
|
Oct 07, 2024 |
|
The Parallax View
|
Sep 21, 2024 |
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A Clockwork Orange
|
Sep 08, 2024 |
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Twisters
|
Sep 01, 2024 |
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The Lives of Others
|
Aug 24, 2024 |
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The Battle of Algiers
|
Aug 13, 2024 |
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Tickled
|
Aug 03, 2024 |
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Drive My Car
|
Jul 21, 2024 |
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The Souvenir
|
Jul 02, 2024 |
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Furiosa
|
Jun 23, 2024 |
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Bastards
|
Jun 14, 2024 |
|
The Wicker Man (1973)
|
Jun 07, 2024 |
|
Vengeance is Mine (1984)
|
May 29, 2024 |
|
Chinatown
|
May 24, 2024 |
|
A Woman Under the Influence
|
May 16, 2024 |
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Yojimbo
|
May 10, 2024 |
|
Stroszek
|
May 02, 2024 |
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The Land (1969)
|
Apr 21, 2024 |
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Doubt
|
Apr 06, 2024 |
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No Country for Old Men
|
Mar 28, 2024 |
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Of Gods and Men
|
Mar 20, 2024 |
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Breaking Away
|
Mar 07, 2024 |
|
Bamboozled
|
Feb 22, 2024 |
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American Fiction
|
Feb 16, 2024 |
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The Curse
|
Jan 30, 2024 |
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May December
|
Jan 22, 2024 |
|
Saltburn
|
Jan 10, 2024 |
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Leave Her to Heaven
|
Jan 02, 2024 |
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The Banshees of Inisherin
|
Dec 13, 2023 |
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Idiocracy
|
Dec 06, 2023 |
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Demolition Man
|
Nov 29, 2023 |
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Videodrome
|
Nov 16, 2023 |
|
The Worst Person in the World
|
Oct 25, 2023 |
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Borderline
|
Sep 30, 2023 |
|
Baenken
|
Sep 07, 2023 |
|
35 Shots of Rum
|
Jul 27, 2023 |
|
If... (1968)
|
Jun 23, 2023 |
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The Way is Shut
|
Jun 06, 2023 |
|
Chevalier
|
May 26, 2023 |
|
Wounded Attachments
|
May 08, 2023 |
|
Querelle
|
Apr 25, 2023 |
|
Triangle of Sadness
|
Apr 12, 2023 |
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The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist
|
Mar 28, 2023 |
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The Whale
|
Mar 16, 2023 |
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Eco Village
|
Feb 27, 2023 |
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The Good Boss
|
Feb 17, 2023 |
|
Tár (2022)
|
Feb 05, 2023 |
|
Enjoy Poverty
|
Jan 26, 2023 |
|
The Page Turner
|
Jan 22, 2023 |
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F is For Family
|
Jan 13, 2023 |
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Severance
|
Dec 29, 2022 |
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I’ve Loved You So Long
|
Dec 22, 2022 |
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Three Billboards
|
Dec 09, 2022 |
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Gaslight
|
Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Dreamers
|
Nov 16, 2022 |
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Hell or High Water
|
Nov 04, 2022 |
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Blonde
|
Oct 27, 2022 |
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What is a Woman?
|
Oct 24, 2022 |
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Carnage
|
Oct 06, 2022 |
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Contempt
|
Oct 02, 2022 |
|
Archetypes
|
Sep 23, 2022 |
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Clans of the Alphane Moon
|
Sep 07, 2022 |
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The Rehearsal
|
Aug 25, 2022 |
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Rien à Foutre
|
Aug 17, 2022 |
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The Wanting Seed
|
Aug 10, 2022 |
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Only Yesterday
|
Jul 30, 2022 |
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Ingrid Goes West
|
Jul 21, 2022 |
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Barton Fink & the Coen Brothers
|
Jun 29, 2022 |
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Titane
|
Jun 18, 2022 |
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The Witch
|
Jun 10, 2022 |
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What’s Eating Gilbert Grape & Duty
|
Jun 02, 2022 |
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The Rum Diary
|
May 18, 2022 |
|
Le Silence de la Mer
|
May 12, 2022 |
|
The Outfit
|
May 04, 2022 |
|
Mad Men
|
Apr 20, 2022 |
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Peter’s Friends
|
Apr 07, 2022 |
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Malcolm in the Middle
|
Mar 24, 2022 |
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Don’t Look Up
|
Mar 10, 2022 |
|
Time Out & Denial
|
Feb 23, 2022 |
|
Possession (1981)
|
Feb 16, 2022 |
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The Lighthouse
|
Feb 03, 2022 |
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Riders of Justice
|
Jan 27, 2022 |
|
France, the Media, and Notions of Self
|
Jan 20, 2022 |
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Brazil & Quixotism
|
Jan 13, 2022 |
|
The Carl Jung Episode
|
Jan 06, 2022 |
|
Blow-Up: Appearance and Reality
|
Dec 29, 2021 |
|
Quentin Skinner‘s Genealogy of Liberty
|
Dec 22, 2021 |
|
Caché, Gaze, & the Work of Michael Haneke
|
Dec 09, 2021 |
|
Addicted to Ideology
|
Nov 26, 2021 |
|
Dune the Novel, Dune the Film
|
Nov 19, 2021 |
|
Pig (2021)
|
Nov 10, 2021 |
|
Boomers
|
Nov 04, 2021 |
|
The Unabomber Manifesto & Modernity
|
Oct 28, 2021 |
|
Vox Videos
|
Oct 14, 2021 |
|
Arcadia & Nature
|
Oct 07, 2021 |
|
On Motherhood & Sexual Fantasies
|
Oct 02, 2021 |
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Let it Breathe & Community
|
Sep 22, 2021 |
|
The Eyes of Tammy Faye & Scapegoats
|
Sep 16, 2021 |
|
Kristeva, Nine Inch Nails, & Hatred
|
Sep 09, 2021 |
|
Twilight & Anemoia
|
Sep 02, 2021 |
|
Instagram Poetry & Regime Aesthetics
|
Aug 26, 2021 |
|
Andrei Rublev
|
Aug 19, 2021 |
|
Agora & Decline
|
Aug 12, 2021 |
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Atame & Desire
|
Aug 06, 2021 |
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The Canyons & Failure
|
Jul 29, 2021 |
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Terry Eagleton, Roger Scruton, & High Culture
|
Jul 25, 2021 |
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Roma & Class in the Twenty-First Century
|
Jul 14, 2021 |
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Safe & Allergies
|
Jul 07, 2021 |
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Storytelling & Narrative
|
Jun 30, 2021 |
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American Beauty & Midlife Crisis
|
Jun 24, 2021 |
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F for Fake & Fakery
|
Jun 16, 2021 |
|
Blue Collar & Co-option
|
Jun 09, 2021 |
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There Will Be Blood & Hustlers
|
Jun 02, 2021 |
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The Devils and Repression
|
May 21, 2021 |
|
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance & Masculinity
|
May 13, 2021 |
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The Last Supper & Enemies
|
May 05, 2021 |
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Making Love and Commodification
|
Apr 28, 2021 |
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Return to Innocence & Innocence
|
Apr 21, 2021 |
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Reality Bites & The Real
|
Apr 14, 2021 |
|
A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance & Contingency
|
Apr 07, 2021 |
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A Ghost Story & Repetition
|
Mar 26, 2021 |
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Lost in Translation & Romance
|
Mar 26, 2021 |
|
Whiplash & Intensity
|
Mar 26, 2021 |