Life After Debt – A Dead Economists Society Series Salon

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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…

$20.00

Berlin IRL Meetup – “Travel after Covid”

Berlin Volkspark Friedrichshain Friedrichshain, Berlin

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…

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Digital Collectibles: Ownership and Scarcity; Infinity and Ephemerality?

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In this Interintellect Salon, Dominic Duffin will lead an exploration of digital collectibles, why, how and what we collect, and what collecting looks like in virtual space. Human beings love to collect. Whether model aircraft or contemporary art, collectible cards or Swiss watches, collecting for the pleasure of owning and displaying a collection is well…

$15.00

What Does it Take to Build a Tinier Future: The History and Philosophy of Nanotechnology

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In his debut Interintellect salon, David White will explore how we came to construct objects and machines at the atomic scale as well as the  implications of nanotechnology for its practitioners and society at large. One of the principal promises of advancing technological innovation is the opening of new domains of inquiry.  Since Democritus first…

$15.00

Can Consilience Save Us from Societal Collapse?

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Interintellect Tom Beakbane discusses the divisions in society and how they might be reconciled.  Here are four suppositions about our collective predicament: Society is undergoing extremely rapid change resulting from technological developments. The institutions that have historically provided social cohesion and sensemaking are proving inadequate. Levels of social anxiety are increasing and society is fractionating…

$10.00

A History of War: Aftermath, Reparations, Justice

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In the penultimate episode of A History of War series hosted by Interintellect founder Anna Gát, we will explore reparations, reconstruction and redistribution - regeneration - and how countries both victorious or defeated deal with what comes after the fighting. “What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected,…

$25.00

Enlightenment to Entanglement: How to Think About Technological Complexity

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In this salon, writer and scientist Samuel Arbesman leads a discussion around how to think about and live with the complex technologies around us. From machine-learning systems and desktop computers, to our automobiles and the infrastructure of the Internet, we are in an era of complex technologies, ones that are increasingly incomprehensible. And this is…

$20.00

Understanding the City: An Introduction to Urbanism

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In this salon Camilo Arturo Suárez leads a discussion on the range of starting points from which one can begin to understand the city as a place of intersectional human experience and it's relation to the built environment. Cities are incredibly complex places, but often, they are complex in ways we do not always perceive.…

$15.00

In the Pines: from Lead Belly to Kurt Cobain, listening to an American Appalachian folk song through history

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In this salon, Interintellect Wes Chow tracks the evolution of folk music by listening to the many versions of the classic folk song In The Pines.  In 1993, MTV Unplugged brought Kurt Cobain and Nirvana up for a plugged in unplugged performance. At the conclusion of the set, the producers urged Cobain on for an encore…

$15.00

Identity: Being and Becoming

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In this salon, Karan Chawla discusses what makes up the foundation of one's Identity in the 21st century, and how we can better navigate the perpetually evolving idea of Self. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and he's not the same man. — Heraclitus With every…

$10.00