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Hotel Bar Sessions

Leigh M. Johnson, Jennifer Kling, Bob Vallierwww.hotelbarpodcast.com
A podcast where the real philosophy happens.
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Episodes

MINIBAR: Mythos, Fable, Farce (with Leigh M. Johnson)

In the spring of 2026, Anthropic released to the public what it described as its most capable AI model to date... and then the U.S. government shut it down seventy-two hours later. That subsequent sequence of events, both strange and almost operatic in its timing, is the kind of thing we might genuinely call "unprecedented." It was also a crystalline illustration of something philosophers have been decrying for decades, namely, the difference between performing ethical responsibility and actuall...

Jun 19, 202630 minSeason 15Ep. 3

MINIBAR: Art and Phenomenology (with Bob Vallier)

We tend to think of art as something you look at — a canvas on a wall, an object behind velvet rope, something that holds still while you decide what you think of it. But a tradition in contemporary art has spent the better part of sixty years insisting that this picture is wrong. The artwork isn't the object. It's your body moving through the space it creates. In this minibar episode, Bob Vallier draws on his work in phenomenology to make the case that some of the stranger, more provocative, an...

Jun 14, 202636 minSeason 15Ep. 2
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