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Episode 212: Catastrophic Philosophy

January 30, 2026 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Technology 0 Comments

How does philosophy respond to catastrophes? And how does it generate them?

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Episode 211: Intelligence(s)

January 23, 2026 HBS Hosts HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15) 0 Comments

What counts as intelligence?

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MINIBAR: Algorithmic Nostalgia (with Leigh M. Johnson)

January 16, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Minibar), Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Minibar Episodes, Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Why do AI’s fabricated memories “feel” so true?

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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 207: The Enshittification of… everything?

December 5, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Pop Culture, Technology 0 Comments

How late capitalism turns every click into crap.

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Episode 203: Imagination (with Stephen T. Asma)

November 7, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics 0 Comments

How can we recover not only the power, but the importance, of imagination for philosophy?

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Episode 193: Doomscrolling

August 1, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Technology 0 Comments

What are we looking for? When can we stop?

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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 188: Sovereignty

June 27, 2025 HBS Hosts HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13) 0 Comments

Who or what rules the world today? And by what right?

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Episode 186: Panic Now? Tools for Humanizing (with Ira Allen)

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

The rise of AI, the decay of democracy, colonial legacies, climate disaster, Is it time to panic now?

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