Social Technologies: Cultural Infrastructure for Cooperation and Meaning

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What are social technologies?  How can they be used to address the challenges facing our world?  Join veteran hosts Linus Lu and Dave Crouch to discuss how we can build and adapt cultural constructs to encourage peace, cooperation, and tolerance in a constantly-changing world. We mostly think of technology as devices, tools, and machines: physical…

$15.00

The Tortoise and the Hare, by Elizabeth Jenkins

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A book club salon, hosted by Henry Oliver who writes The Common Reader.    We will discuss The Tortoise and the Hare, by Elizabeth Jenkins, one of the great post-war English novels, a vicious, Austen-esque novel about the break-up of a marriage, late-bloomers, and changing social mores in 1950s Britain. As well as discussing the…

$10.00

Werewolf Game Night

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Join Werewolf game master Lukas Rosenstock for another round of the infamous social deduction game. The Interintellect village appears to be a place of friendly people, but things change when…

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Knives Out: The Public Reception of Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt

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In this salon, Daniel Golliher examines the reception that both thinkers received in their own time, and how it compares to their legacies in the present.  This salon is the first of three in a mini-series comparing the thinkers Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt.  Hannah Arendt, ever the enemy of totalitarianism, kept a wary eye…

$25.00

Catholic Southern Gothic

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Dr. Jennifer Frey (associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and host of the literature, philosophy, and theology podcast, Sacred and Profane Love), explores the fiction of mid twentieth century Catholic writer, Flannery O’Connor in a 6-part series. In this salon, we will explore the life of Flannery O'Connor and connect key…

$25.00