Zadie Smith, Carver, Fitzgerald… In this new Interintellect Salon series, Sylvia R helps us to master the art of short fiction – through reading some of the greatest short story writers together! “That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.” ― Raymond Carver “Critics often use the term "minimalist"…
About the series: After her popular Salon series History of Love, Interintellect founder Anna Gát returns to complete the picture: how the history of conflict and warfare underpinned our journey from wilderness-dwellers into masters of complex civilisations - our conquest of the world and our complicated march toward progress. We will discuss war both as…
Patricia Hurducas continues her exploration: What is it about mountains that awakens the human mind’s playfulness and curiosity? What is awe? Should Thoreau’s Walden be more widely read…? "I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.” - Nan Shepherd On the second part of the Mountains Are…
Fellow Interintellects Katrina Dela Cruz and Mind Apivessa continue their exploration into the history, present, and future of education. Our past salons on education have shown us that while our values on education may differ, our experiences of "the educational system" are quite similar. Parents praising straight A's. Peers aspiring for Ivy League degrees. Information to memorize for…
In the third Salon of this special series, hosts Scott Davies and Olena Bulygina continue their collective exploration of the topic of neurodiversity and the neurodivergent. In previous sessions, discussions have focused on several aspects of this topic, including defining these terms, challenges faced by the neurodiverse including employment, relationships and various aspects of identity.…
Matt Clifford returns to conclude his Lessons from the Middle Ages series with a realistic exploration of medieval violence, penalty and war. After exploring religion and power, In our third salon in “Lessons from the Middle Ages” series, we turn our focus to violence and war - topics that are deeply intertwined with the themes of our first…
Fellow InterIntellect Helena Ng invites you to take a Play Day and join forces with some friendly curiosity buddies for a communal nerding session. Last month at Camp Curiosity, we discussed the technique of deconstruction and applied it to ideal emotional states across cultures, which led to the emotional dissonance of tech, then a citizen…
Join London ii Hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK to discuss the life and views of Plato, as well as his great teacher Socrates, exploring how their ideas might be relevant (or not) in today’s society and how they might serve us in the future. This salon is the first of an 11-month Interintellect series…
“Unfortunately, many analysts – in academia, special-interest groups, governments, and the press – still presume that common-pool problems are all dilemmas in which the participants themselves cannot avoid producing suboptimal…
Interintellect Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion on curation – from curation of objects in museums to curation of ideas in our personal projects. How can we become better curators and what does that entail? The word curation comes from the Latin word curare, meaning to look after. In Roman times, it meant to take…
Welcome to Writer’s Corner where we talk about and practice the craft of writing. Join Sylvia R in this session where we will focus on Hemingway. This session will focus on Hemingway and will be structured as follows: Section 1: Discuss We’ll dive into the formal qualities of "Indian Camp" (see pre-salon reading materials). We’ll discuss…
On April 13, Interintellect founder Anna Gát returns to discuss aspects of warfare, with a look at the breakout of wars: from the earliest days of tribal conflict to the most contemporary, mercenary proxy wars, and those fought in the cyberspace – or, soon, space. *** "The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. I…
