Can Machines Help Us Find Inspiration?
OnlineIn this deeply interactive and immersive salon, Dhrupad Karwa (Dhru) will humbly attempt to unravel the mysteries of "inspiration", through the unique lens of culture and technology. Dhru is the…
In this deeply interactive and immersive salon, Dhrupad Karwa (Dhru) will humbly attempt to unravel the mysteries of "inspiration", through the unique lens of culture and technology. Dhru is the…
Debut host Rosano invites you to this listening salon, exploring the music we listen to and sharing how it affects us. — Post-salon update: listen to our collective playlist. —…
In part three of this mini-series with host Alex Criddle, we will examine what, if anything, psychedelics tell us about the nature of reality, the mind, and what it means to be human. A frequent claim by psychonauts is that everything is connected and we are all one. Another is that love is everything. These…
Second in philosopher and life coach Pamela J. Hobart's Salon series on work, You've Quit Your Job - Now What? provides attendees the opportunity to plot their next professional steps. …
In his latest salon, host Scott Davies discusses our fixation with optimizing and quantifying every aspect of our lives, how things got this way and how we can push back against this trend. From the workplace and in our professional lives as well as increasingly in our personal lives too, our lives are increasingly becoming…
Join Taylor Pullinger for an IRL meet-up in Central Park, New York City. As these sticky summer days ooze by, it's time one more for the ii's New York contingent to gather for conversation and friendship. Bring some sun protection, a blanket to sit on, and a snack and something to drink if you'd like.…
Have you asked the question: What exactly is Interintellect? You might have heard about it, seen events floating on the internet, or have friends who might have mentioned it. All the time wondering what is it all about. Here is your chance to join us in this introductory salon to get answers to all your…
In this salon, debut host, Zohar Atkins, will lead a discussion about Heidegger's Being and Time with particular attention to the question of how and whether philosophy can help us live meaningful lives. Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) is one of the most important, influential, difficult, and controversial works of all time, yet the questions it…
In this salon (the second in the three-part mini-series), Jake Orthwein will lead a discussion on the strange unreality of contemporary politics. In The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama issued a qualification to his famous pronouncement that the ideological struggles of history had reached their culmination. He worried that the deep connection…
George Packer, author of the National Book Award-winning The Unwinding, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century and, most recently, Last Best Hope, joins Morten Høi Jensen to discuss a life of writing, reporting, and thinking about America and its place in the world. “What…
The Dead Economists Society Salon series continues as Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss the many approaches to borrowing and lending money. “Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.” ~ Spanish Proverb As global debt based 281 trillion US dollars this year, we are asking the questions : What are the real risks of all…
Lukas Rosenstock is travelling to Berlin and wants to make the most out of his trip. What better way is there than to meet fellow Interintellect folks?! This IRL gathering happens in Volkspark Friedrichshain (where our previous Berlin IRL gathering already took place). Please keep an eye on the Berlin Discord channel or contact Lukas…