We had all to walk a lot during last year. But on a different scale, and probably alone. After learning all nearby streets and parks in excruciating details, Olena Bulygina and Bryan Kam invite you to explore walking together and think about what we have learned from walking alone. Walking is the ultimate self-paced gnosis…
In this Interintellect Salon, Dominic Duffin will lead an exploration of 'virtual geography', the possibilities of virtual megacities, whether physical geography still matters in virtual space, and if so, how? Since the dawn of the internet, new virtual geographies have been forming as people gather in digital spaces, some with connections to physical place, but…
Interintellect Maybe Gray and co-host Sadalsvvd invite you to explore the many myths and meanings that make up increasingly prevalent practice of astrology. Though astrology dates back to the ancient world, a modern revival of astrological practices has been unfolding over the past several decades. With modern technology, the tools for these practices have become…
Interintellect Taylor Pullinger hosts a meet-up in Central Park. Bring a picnic blanket and a snack and gather with your fellow New York interintellects in our favorite large green rectangle—Central Park! We'll enjoy being together outdoors in the burgeoning summer after a pixel-bound year of Zoom windows. Check the New York channel on Discord for…
Helena Ng leads a monthly gathering where we spend time working synchronously on our multiplayer Roam Research graph. We'll begin each session with stream of consciousness writing, followed by discussions on recent entries. Previous Sessions: Tweet from April 2021 Tweet from May 2021
In this salon, Matt Groh explores the connection between the mystical, infinite labyrinths of the The Library of Babel and creative exploration itself. Borges' short story begins with an epitaph…
Interintellect host Timothy Wilcox invites you join in celebrating Bloomsday in New York to honour James Joyce. Bloomsday is June 16 (next Wednesday), commemorating the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set. Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom around Dublin, making his way back to his wife, Molly, whose love must be reborn after the two suffered…
In this salon, Raven Connolly leads a discussion that will address the following questions: What can female rivalry tell us about the nature of women? How do women express aggression, and under what circumstances? Why is beauty and sexual reputation such a focus of female scrutiny? How do our social environments encourage or discourage rivalry…
After an exciting members-only version of this event, on June 17 we will gather again to welcome all our friends to an Interintellect Book Recommendation Party! Your salon host will be Anna Gát, founder of the ii. LIMITED TICKETS! How it works: In the safe, friendly, unrecorded format of the Interintellect salon, you will be invited…
Fellow Interintellect Étienne Fortier-Dubois dives into the evolutionary origins of beauty. Why are some things beautiful? Why are some works of art (e.g. the Mona Lisa) more beautiful than others (e.g. a…
Join Yatharth Agarwal in a live, Interintellect group reading of The Tao of Pooh — a whimsical tale of the principles of Taoism, told through Winnie-the-Pooh. This is a book to be experienced, not to be read. Join us as the words come alive, fill the space, and we notice what is left. "When you…
In this salon, Mishka Orakzai will be hosting a discussion on the buzz to learn to code and its relevance for our future. We'll be talking about the coding literacy movement, the ever-growing tech industry, and contrasting them with Marc Andreessen's infamous "It's time to build" essay - where he argues that despite the resources…
