After a very enjoyable first Silent Salon, we continue this new tradition. Bring a book, your studies, your work to-do's, or your meditation practice, and let's spend 3 calm hours together, undistracted, in silence... *** If the early 21st century seemed hellbent on depriving us from silence, the current pandemic, with its various types of…
Fellow Interintellect Maybe Gray explores the world of comparison that is so often hidden within the ways we think about ourselves, others Certainty and clarity are incredibly rare phenomena. In a wide variety of contexts we are all forced to make do without clear objective guides for understanding concepts. In the absence of objective information…
Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In part 2, we discuss stories that imagine the world as if God were a observable scientific fact. Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though he cannot be described as prolific — his…
This new track of monthly Interintellect Salons by Ben Fleming address the issues of how to be a physically fit and healthy intellectual: what’s beyond sitting and thinking? Save the date: this track of ii Salons will run on the first Monday of every month. The stereotypical intellectual is not a physically fit person. But it is…
In this Interintellect Salon, Taylor Pullinger will lead a discussion on resilience – in people, in nature, in systems. Sometimes things go wrong – it’s how we respond that makes all the difference. In the face of adversity we could break down and give up, we could rigidly stand firm against it, or we could…
Fellow Interintellect Alex Yao explores how polymaths and Internet remix culture use combinatory play to create new works. "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought." — Albert Einstein Nothing is original, everything is a remix. We build on what came before, and create by taking bits and pieces from our knowledge,…
A kickoff for our new Dead Economists Society Salon series – hosted by Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin “Imagine a world in which all major private wealth (every factory, patent or plot of land) is constantly for sale at a fair price and where most of the value of this property is paid out equally to all citizens as a…
In his debut Interintellect Salon, Cameron Harwick will examine the mindsets of our ancestors, and whether we have anything in common with them. It’s easy enough to see how we live differently from our ancestors. You’re reading this on a device that connects you instantly to people all over the world. For that matter, you’re reading it,…
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"…
Join David Valerio as he continues his series on Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building. The Timeless Way of Building is a classic of architectural philosophy. It presents the organic, fractal, and down-to-earth way that we evolved buildings in the past, and serves as a biting critique of the top-down, authoritarian, and alienating approach to the “design” of…
Fellow Interintellect Timothy Wilcox invites you to rethink the paces of reading and writing for the texting generation. Come talk about narrative structure, texting, and social drama. What can we learn about ourselves through thinking what it means to have characters be always online? And how might we rethink the stories we tell, both creative…
In this Interintellect Salon, fellow Interintellect Violeta (aka, Maman Lunettes ?) will examine a modern contention: Children who have lots of screen time early in life will be easily distractible adults, with rewired brains. Or so we hear, from studies on juvenile rats. But we're left with many questions after reading such headlines as we're raising…
