Dear Members and Hosts, Interintellect is always growing and changing – I am so blessed to be looking after this beautiful global community, where we gather at online salons around the clock and offline meetups around the world, hang out in our Discord channels and DMs, and sometimes even travel together! Since joining us, Interintellect…
In this salon, best-selling children’s books author K.A. Mulenga leads a discussion on self-publishing books. For all aspiring authors and those who have already published and just need some insight from a fellow author, this one's for you. The publishing industry has grown immensely in the past 10 years allowing people to publish books on their…
Imagine you could cast a magic spell and bring anything into existence... We're not there yet, but creating AI art is actually pretty close. Join Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek for a collaborative workshop where we'll test our spell-casting skills, and manifest our own comic book in just two hours. The image above took six words…
In this salon, the first in a potential series (depending on demand), Eyal Shay will lead a discussion on the concept of Courage in Ancient Greece, why it can't be a virtue at all, and what can take its place (and does, according to Plato and logic). Ask an Athenian born in the 5th cen.…
A movie-loving members-only gathering by Interintellect founder Anna Gát. After our many successful Book Therapy events – where we come together to share our favourite readings and life stories, and have the group create a personal recommendation list of 10 books for each of us – we will try the same format but with movies!…
Hello, friends! Join Matt Neapolitan and fellow Interintellects in Santa Monica to discuss Part I of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America. Following up on our recent book club, conversation about consciousness, and further discussions in the Los Angeles area ii Discord…
Progress thinkers Jason Crawford and Benedict Macon-Cooney lead a wide-ranging discussion on the many ways individuals and communities can build a better future. Come and bring your questions, stories and projects! A progress studies movement is calling upon us to understand the history of technological and scientific breakthroughs and how to keep the many resulting improvements sustainable.…
KORNIENKO コニンコー (that's me, Sophia Kornienko), journalist, animation artist and the host of the UnschoolingFuture Podcast, invites you to become part of her new project about kids' and teens' digital freedoms. I am writing/ illustrating a book, Free to Browse: Organic Contexts for Tech and Media Literacy (working title). Drawing from my family's experience as…
Join hosts Isabela Granic and Thomas Arnold as we read Louise Glück's title poem from her remarkable 1982 volume "The Wild Iris." What kind of a flower narrates a poem? What is death, and what life? Where do we find ourselves in these verses? This salon will allow us the time to read, savor, and…
Since 2011, Richard D. Bartlett has worked with self-organizing groups and teams. Out of this came Microsolidarity - a roadmap for building communities of belonging, partnership and purpose. In this salon, he will chat with Interintellect producer Maria Górska-Piszek and Interintellect community members about cultivating trust and belonging within our community. How do we create…
A salon on Creativity, Genius and The Gift & Market Economies, hosted by Bryan Kam, Nasos Papadopoulos, and Isabela Granic. Many of us have a deep need to do creative work which we believe in — but this kind of expression does not naturally pay the bills. In this wide-ranging salon, Bryan Kam, Nasos Papadopoulos,…
In this salon, writer and scientist Samuel Arbesman leads a discussion around the nature of computer code and its relationship to magic and sorcery. Computer code has been described to many different things, but one analogy that crops up over and over is that of code as a type of magic: words that affect our…
