The Lack

A weekly podcast from Helen Rollins, Benjamin Studebaker, and Nina Power. A psychoanalyst, a political theorist, a philosopher, and usually a film.

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We have been driven mad, everything is complicated, life is miserable, but we must carry on talking!

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New: our Carl Jung episode https://t.co/S8Yxd4dQ1W

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@acidhorizonpod We did an episode on F for Fake which may be of interest... https://t.co/Bxj1PyHtkN

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Latest ep: Antonioni's Blow-Up, Nina has The Virus, and we talk about appearance and reality. https://t.co/lsoddjKMuz

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A Covid Christmas Prophecy https://t.co/vIGlZ8jhGw

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New episode out today: https://t.co/IUQsns4Aok

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going back to the title (aka he's a ghost),

@TheLackPodcast with @BMStudebaker,

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

two ways or three ways of being a man,

a movie that has confidence in its audience,

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Our episode with @morbidbooks' Lev Parker and Nina Power (now a cohost of @TheLackPodcast) is available now to all

https://t.co/uNLIhNNizb

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"Liberalism" can mean:

1. A commitment to individualism
2. A commitment to pluralism
3. A commitment to markets

If you pick on liberalism in any one of these senses, you are often accused of opposing it in the others

But these things don't have to go together

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Benjamin and Nina go to war over Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev. Who will win? Listen here:
https://t.co/K3QAfhxloW

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Subscribe to The Lack to hear our subscriber-only B-side episodes, where we tackle the greater controversies of breast milk, 'Normcore', and the Communist Manifesto.
https://t.co/6BJMe0ftBS

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If you haven't listened to The Lack before, our episode on American Beauty - discussing Kevin Spacey's midlife crisis, and everyone else's midlife crisis - is a good place to start: https://t.co/9gqLOXU35R
Hello, Mena!

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The weekly A-side episode, discussing the film, poem, song, etc Nina Benjamin or Helen have chosen, is freely available in most of the places you'd expect.

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The Lack is a weekly podcast from political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, philosopher Nina Power and filmmaker Helen Rollins. We take a work each week and relate it to a philosophical theme for a wide-ranging discussion about ideas, culture and society.