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
53 - 'The Ego Is a Mournful Being Constituted by Lack' (ft. Carlos Padrón) - 'Border'
04.03.2021 | 1 Std. 33 Min.
Psychoanalyst Carlos Padrón joins Helen to discuss 'Border' (Ali Abbasi) and the dialectics of identity.
52 - A Shepherdess in a Fantasy Landscape (ft. Benjamin Studebaker) - 'Trumbo'
14.02.2021 | 1 Std. 20 Min.
Our most loyal guest, political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, returns to talk to Helen about cancellation, market contortions and AOC.
51 - What Lies Beneath (ft. Grafton Tanner) - 'The Social Dilemma', 'Videodrome'
05.02.2021 | 54 Min.
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.
50 - Roomination (ft. Nina Power) - 'Theorem'
27.01.2021 | 1 Std. 1 Min.
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.