Jacques Derrida

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MINIBAR: AI’s Alien Mind (with Leigh M. Johnson)

October 16, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Minibar Episodes, Politics, Technology 0 Comments

What happens when the machine stops thinking out loud?

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MINIBAR: Derrida’s First Lecture Series (with Bob Vallier)

October 9, 2026 HBS Hosts HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Minibar Episodes, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

A sneak peak into Jacques Derrida’s first lecture, just recently published in English.

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Episode 234: The Q Word

August 21, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Pop Culture 0 Comments

“Normal” was never all that normal to begin with.

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Episode 219: Possible Worlds

April 10, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics, Pop Culture 0 Comments

What philosophers do with worlds that don’t exist — and whether it helps.

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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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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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