In his debut salon, Nat Sharpe invites you to reimagine the relationship between Homo Sapiens and the biosphere of Earth. I once heard someone compare humanity to cancer. It was disturbing. But the more I thought about it, the more sense it made. And the more depressed and guilty I became. Our conquest of Earth…
During this Interintellect Curation Series Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion on the topic of curation in three parts: Understanding the Curator (Part 1), Copying the Curator (Part 2), and Becoming the Curator (Part 3). In the first part of the series - Understanding the Curator - we will explore the history of curation, the role…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps…
In the finale of our curiosity series with Helena Ng, let's join hands once again to build our ultimate virtual playground. We'll use this exquisite time together to reflect, make notes, and celebrate in the name of play. Dear curiosity buddy, 'I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I…
At her debut Interintellect salon/workshop, Pamela J. Hobart (philosopher a.k.a. "The Life Coach for Smart People") will help attendees figure out when they can - and should! - try something before quitting a mediocre job, vs. when they should proceed directly to the exit. Finding yourself in a job that's too bad to tolerate as-is,…
In her debut Interintellect Workshop Salon, Julia Racsko will go beyond criticising the attention economy and set out to create an alternative by exploring our understanding of attention through drawing. All of our lives: our perceptions, memories, emotions are mediated through our attentional capacities, yet it is often discussed in terms of productivity or time…
Interintellect Alaka Halder hosts a summer meet-up at Princeton University (Central New Jersey), her alma mater. We'll walk through the lovely Prospect Garden, try to spot gargoyles perched on historic campus buildings, enjoy outdoor sculptures, and maybe stop for snacks and coffee on Nassau Street. Check your email and the New York channel on Discord…
Educator Raffi Grinberg facilitates a discussion on practical lessons about how to live a fulfilling life from W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. This literary masterpiece about growing into adulthood is shockingly relevant 100+ years later, and has deep, practical lessons to teach us about not falling in love with the wrong person, why…
The peaceful Interintellect village has been safe from werewolf attacks for a while, but during their retreat the werewolves have planned their next move. Nobody expected them, creatures who thrive in the darkness, to choose, of all days, one of the longest days of the year, but that's part of their surprise plan to haunt…
What if you're an Interintellect, but you just don't know it yet...? Everybody thinks their life is weird. Most of us are right. Each of us holds our own brand of weird thing that makes us special, and with it, often comes its own brand of loneliness. Or so we thought. This past year, through…
In this Interintellect salon, Taylor Pullinger will host a conversation with Erik Hoel, inspired his recently published novel The Revelations. " Somewhere, lost in that tower of Babel, that library of Borges, was the theory of consciousness. The one and only correct theory an infinitesimal needle in an infinite haystack. To see a glimpse… It would fit…
Debut Interintellect host Reddy2go leads a special 'playshop' salon. If play is the opposite of work, is playshop the opposite of workshop? Join us to discover the answer to such inanely profound inquiries into the mysteries of the universe, as we know it. We’re going to travel back in time to recover our lost inner…
