aesthetics

Episode 237: Confidence Men (with Landon Frim)

September 11, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

On Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, Andrew Tate… and other enemies of truth.

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Episode 236: Fashion

September 4, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Pop Culture 0 Comments

Your closet feels like self-expression, but it may function like a subscription service.

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Episode 232: Multi/Race/Less/Ness (with Jon Ivan Gill)

August 7, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How do we process the trauma of racial identification?

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MINIBAR: Art and Phenomenology (with Bob Vallier)

June 14, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Minibar), Minibar Episodes, Politics, Pop Culture 0 Comments

Your body already knows what art is.

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Episode 216: Against the Future (with Simon Critchley)

March 7, 2026 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Technology 0 Comments

Why is Simon Critchley “against” the future?

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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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