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Here is a teaser of the first episode of Helen's new podcast The Lack, which you can find in full here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-lack/id1561070699?i=1000515251963

Psychoanalyst Carlos Padrón joins Helen to discuss 'Border' (Ali Abbasi) and the dialectics of identity.

Our most loyal guest, political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, returns to talk to Helen about cancellation, market contortions and AOC.

A conversation with author, academic and musician Grafton Tanner on the why the tale of the perils of Tech is a tale that is as old as time.

In which philosopher, translator and cultural critic Nina Power joins Helen to talk about Pasolini's 'Thereom' (1968), touching on subjective destitution, nettle-eating witches and conceiving of the gender wars as a sibling rivalry.

Elliott Morgan of the Valleyfolk talks to Helen about their new (and incredibly addictive) Movie Movie Game.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thevalleyfolk/movie-movie-game-0

Punk pastor Jay Bakker joins Helen to discuss 'Star Wars' (George Lucas et al.), family ties, contradiction, the problematic Camus and the political power of Grace.

Theologian, musician and cultural theorist Barry Taylor joins us for a conversation about California, contradiction and counterculturalism in relation to Julien Temple's 'The Filth and the Fury'.

Helen is joined by her sister Bessie for a discussion inspired by a chapter from Todd McGowan's 2016 book 'Capitalism and Desire'. We use his insight that 'Notting Hill' (Roger Michell) is a film about love and that 'Pretty Woman' (Garry Marshall) is a film about romance as our jumping off point.

Parsing out truth and ideology, cause and effect, narrative shapes and emancipatory story forms with political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, in relation to 'Barbarians' (Netflix) and 'Industry' (HBO).