Foucault

Episode 228: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense (with Nathan Widder)

July 10, 2026 HBS Hosts Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16) 0 Comments

Deleuze on sense, nonsense, and the encounters that punch us in the mouth.

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Episode 227: Disorienting Cisgender (with Perry Zurn)

July 3, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

The word everyone’s fighting about has a history almost no one knows.

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Episode 225: Foucault’s “Panopticism”

May 22, 2026 HBS Hosts Deep Dives, Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Visibility is a trap.

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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 210: Marilyn Frye’s “Oppression”

December 26, 2025 HBS Hosts Deep Dives, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How to mark the distinction between being “inconvenienced” and being oppressed.

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Episode 201: The Hills We Die On

October 24, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

How do we choose the hills where we make our stand?

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MINIBAR: Living in Occupied D.C.

August 22, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Minibar), Minibar Episodes, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

What it’s like to live with a President who is too extra.

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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 187: Interpretation

June 20, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

Grab a drink and buckle up—this is the kind of philosophical brawl you don’t want to miss.

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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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