Western Canon Book Club: Fathers & Sons: Turgenev and the death of liberalism

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Writer Henry Oliver continues the Western Canon Book Club series with a salon about the birth of Romanticism. Turgenev's greatest novel is one of the greatest Russian novels of the nineteenth century. A response to the new generation of nihilists, who saw the world very differently from their liberal fathers, this is a very resonant…

$20.00

Fascism and Patriarchy: Barbie’s Philosophical World

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She thinks I’m a fascist? I don’t control the railways or the flow of commerce. We just explained to them the immaculate, impeccable seamless garment of logic that is patriarchy. Barbie is taken aback when Sasha calls her a fascist for her role in perpetuating patriarchy. According to her director’s commentary, Gerwig actually had to…

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A Return to Self-Compassion – Members’ Fireside with Gina Hafez

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Join Gina for a return of the Self-Compassion series this October! We will continue discussing Self-Compassion tips, insights, theories and more, diving more deeply into the relationships between Self-Compassion and Performance (physical, career and social!) For our first session, I encourage you to bring a piece of poetry or writing you adore or have written…

Why Foucault Matters – Reading Group with COMPACT’s Sohrab Ahmari and Geoff Shullenberger in NYC!

New York NY

This year marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, by some measures the most widely cited academic of the past hundred years. Often vilified on the right and celebrated—though arguably poorly understood—on the left, Foucault has cast a shadow over recent debates ranging from gender and sexuality and pandemic policy to policing…

Artificial General Intelligence: A Discussion with Julian Togelius

Join host Thomas Arnold with your questions, scenarios, hopes, and fears about AI, as we explore with Julian Togelius author of "Artificial General Intelligence", what the horizon of AI looks like today and what his book might help us notice. Amid so much hype about Artificial General Intelligence (whose arrival is now cast in thousands…

$15.00

What Happened to Great Stories? – What TV and Literature Should Learn from Each Other

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Hollywood screenwriter Michael Sonnenschein, The Common Reader essayist, literary critic, and Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life writer Henry Oliver, and former screenwriter-playwright and now Interintellect founder-CEO Anna Gát lead a discussion on whether humans have lost their storytelling ability thanks to bitesize phone videos and binge-watching streaming services, or instead we're…

$20.00

Solidarity – Author Talk with Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor | New Labor Book Series #19

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Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Leah and Astra together developed the first in-depth examination and intellectual history of solidarity. We will discuss the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of nation, identity, and class to ask: how can we build solidarity in an era of…

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Judaism is Psychedelic

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In this introductory salon, we’ll define key terms like “psychedelic” and “set and setting” in order to show how Jewish wisdom, practices, and narrative can serve as both the container to have an altered experience and the framework through which to prepare for, navigate, and integrate it. Through the Jewish calendar, sacred containers of time,…

$35.00