In this first salon of a mini-series, Judit Petho explores what makes living in a buzzing metropolis exciting and difficult to quit “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford” said Dr Samuel Johnson in 1777. Most Londoners would echo…
In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy leads a talk about tiredness, rest, and doing nothing. I'm tired. Are you tired? We're all tired. We live in tiresome times. We should probably rest. Is there time to rest? Let's talk about it! Let's talk about the psychology of it, and about the assumptions we have about…
In this salon, Dave Crouch will host a conversation about the predictions and perspectives of famed sci-fi author William Gibson, called "The Father of Cyberspace". As we move into a future that many writers would think too crazy to publish, we will talk about what kind of futures we may be headed for and how…
In her debut salon, Silvia Bastos will host a conversation about deliberately using constraints to help us unlock, direct, and increase our creative power. Dr. Seuss's wrote his book Green Eggs and Ham using only fifty different words. The Beatles recorded their whole album Please Please Me in one day. To fight procrastination, Neil Gaiman…
In this salon, Zohar Atkins continues his conversation on Heidegger’s philosophy with a focus on art and artists. What makes a work of art great? What does it look like…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát revisits legendary TV series Mad Men to explore the complicated history of midcentury women whose struggles in the workplace and the home foreshadowed many of today's difficulties and victories. Accompanying its characters during one of the most turbulent and transformational decades of the 20th century, the TV series Mad Men lives…
In the Writer's Corner workshop salons hosted by Sylvia R, we gather to discuss and learn from some of the greatest writers and works of literature. In this session, the focus will be on Jorge Luis Borges's short story "Death and the Compass". The workshop will be structured as follows: Section 1: Discuss This is an…
In this salon series, Tanya Raj leads deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will delve into what are joys and sorrows and how they touch everyone, what is the concept of house and if it is the same as home,…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
In this salon, Tanya Raj and Eyal Shay will hold an experimental space to explore the various facets of silence and what it brings up for each one of us. What does silence mean to you? Can silence be expressive? When do you feel the need to be silent? Come, join us in this experimental…
In the last episode of our A History of War series, Interintellect founder Anna Gát leads a discussion on the future of war: we'll look at not just drones and…
Welcome to the first salon of a mini-series on all things community hosted by Lucia Asanache - she will explore, with support from wonderful guests, the power and potential of communities for improving our society. Inspired by her work building global communities around tech policy at the Tony Blair Institute, Lucia is keen to share…
