In this Interintellect Salon, Indy Neogy asks if the brave new world of the internet is still reproducing old hierarchies of interaction. The hot new app of the moment - Clubhouse - replicates a very standard arrangement: speakers on the dais, listeners sat below and literally mute. Are we reproducing something here? What might be? We…
In this Salon, Indy Neogy hopes to re-examine our relationship with the City as a key part of our ways of living. Much of the speculation about post-Covid changes has centred on the possibility of digital communication technology making The City obsolete. Of course in this and other Salons we live some of that possibility on Zoom.…
In this Interintellect Salon, Indy Neogy will host a conversation on the experience and meaning of growing up as an only child. For most of history, the norm has been for families to have a number of children. It is only post 1945 that changing economic and societal circumstances has in general slowly led to more…
In this Salon, Indy Neogy will lead a conversation about the pleasures and perils of "being an autodidact." Most of us in the current historical moment are only part autodidact - we've learned many things on our own, but also learned quite a bit from others. At the same time, the growth in communication technologies…
Interintellect Indy Neogy invites you to explore how you and everyone walks the tightrope of pattern recognition. It is our innate skills in pattern recognition that allow us to sit back on a summer day and perceive some fantastical shapes (horses! dragons! etc) in the clouds we see. Yet in that very moment we're experiencing Apophenia…
