Hotel Bar Sessions Podcast
1) Food (with Bob Valgenti)
This week, our co-hosts are joined at the bar by Dr. Robert T. Valgenti, philosopher and professor at the Culinary Institute of America to talk about food, the âgastronomic event,â the ethics and poli...Show More
2) Anonymity
Anonymity is usually sold as a kind of freedom: the ability to speak without fear, to move through public space without being tracked, to test ideas and identities without immediate consequences. In t...Show More
3) Catastrophic Philosophy
Catastrophe usually sounds like a synonym for disasterâbut in this episode, itâs treated as a philosophical concept: a âdownturnâ that scrambles a worldâs legibility and forces a basic questionâwhat c...Show More
4) Intelligence(s)
What do we mean when we talk about intelligenceâand who, or what, gets counted as intelligent in the first place? In this episode of Hotel Bar Sessions, our co-hosts pull up stools at the bar to tackl...Show More
5) MINIBAR: Algorithmic Nostalgia (with Leigh M. Johnson)
Why do AI's fabricated memories "feel" so true?Hotel Bar Sessions is currently between seasons and while our co-hosts are hard at work researching and recording next season's episodes, we don't want t...Show More
6) MINIBAR: Uncivil Obedience (with Jen Kling)
What happens when we follow the letter of the law, while refusing to cooperate with its spirit?Hotel Bar Sessions is currently between seasons and while our co-hosts are hard at work researching and r...Show More
7) MINIBAR: Pain (with Bob Vallier)
What can the body, in pain, teach us about the hilarity of our own finitude?Hotel Bar Sessions is currently between seasons and while our co-hosts are hard at work researching and recording next seaso...Show More
8) Marilyn Frye's "Oppression"
How might "oppression" be best understood as a "cage"? This week the HBS co-hosts take a deep dive into a true classic of feminist philosophy: Marilyn Fryeâs 1983 article âOppression.â We unpack Fryeâ...Show More
9) Nostalgia
"Nostalgia" is a portmanteau coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer, combining the Greek nostros (homecoming) and algos (pain, ache). Hofer was a medical student, and he invented this term to describe a ki...Show More
10) Sophistry
Bad arguments are nothing new, so why does it appear as if they have become so pervasive in public discourse? When we watch so-called "debate" videos with titles like "Conservative professor DESTROYS ...Show More