aesthetics

Episode 209: Nostalgia

December 19, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics 0 Comments

What does nostalgia fondly remember, and what might it dangerously enable?

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Episode 202: Comedy

October 31, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism 0 Comments

What’s so funny about comedy, anyway?

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Episode 192: NPC Energy

July 25, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Technology 0 Comments

Are you even playing the game?

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Episode 185: Private Parts

June 6, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How can we talk, or think, about “private parts” in a philosophical way?

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Episode 183: Cringe

May 23, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

This is gonna be awkward.

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Episode 182: Tragic Temporality (with Sean Kirkland)

May 16, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics 0 Comments

Sean Kirkland unpacks living on the edge of “was” and “not yet.”

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Episode 177: El roto, Lo huachafo, Lo jodido (with Carlos Amador)

March 28, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Carlos Amador on Latin American aesthetics, precarity, and what it means to be completely f*cked.

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Episode 173: Unruly Identity (with Falguni Sheth)

February 28, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Raising a glass to the misfits, rebels, and rule-breakers!

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Episode 172: Ambiguity

February 21, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

When nothing is clear, how do we decide?

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Episode 170: Judgment

February 7, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Who gets to judge right and wrong? And on what grounds?

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