aesthetics

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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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Episode 168: Authority

January 24, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Is ChatGPT usurping the authority of the “Author”? Or is it just a pretender to the throne?

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Episode 164: The Significance Impulse (with Josh Glasgow)

December 13, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

What if our cosmic unimportance is itself not all that important?

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Episode 144: The Sublime

July 12, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 10), Politics 0 Comments

The ocean and space and “Ode to Joy” are sublime, of course… but what about an excellent lentil soup? In a confusing twist of etymology, where one would expect “sub” to mean “below,” in the word “sublime” it indicates something above or even beyond. We use it as a superlative, but a superlative of what?…

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Episode 23: Superheroes

August 20, 2021 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 2), Politics, Pop Culture 0 Comments

The HBS hosts discuss the role of superheroes in culture and popular media.

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Episode 19: Laughter

July 23, 2021 HBS Hosts HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 2) 0 Comments

The HBS hosts laugh, joke, and try to figure out what’s so funny about comedy.

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