In this Interintellect Salon, Indy Neogy will host a conversation on the experience and meaning of growing up as an only child. For most of history, the norm has been for families to have a number of children. It is only post 1945 that changing economic and societal circumstances has in general slowly led to more…
Muslim, Christian, atheist... Join Thomas Arnold and Haider Al-Mosawi as they explore the relationships between rationality, rationalization, and religion in this salon, which is part of a new Comparative Religion salon track. Rationality begins with looking at evidence to draw a conclusion, whereas rationalization begins with a conclusion and looks for evidence to support it.…
The Dead Economists Society Salon series continues as Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin investigate Veblen goods: products that become more desirable as they become more expensive. "With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper." ~ Thorstein Veble In this Dead Economists Society Salon, we will…
Interintellect hosts Bryan Kam and Isabela Granic continue with the second part of their salon series that aims to understand both the history and potential futures of networked thought. "And he refused to specialize in anything, preferring to keep an eye on the overall estate rather than any of its parts ... And Nikolay’s management…
In this salon, Interintellect co-hosts Amir H. Hajizamani + Catherine Woodiwiss invite you to explore the relationships between comedy, trauma, and healing, with the help of groundbreaking show “Nanette,” by Hannah Gadsby. “Laughter is not our medicine. Stories hold our cure. Laughter is just the honey that sweetens the bitter medicine.” —Hannah Gadsby In 2017,…
In this Salon, behavioral product strategist Rob Haisfield and real life monastic Matt Goldenberg will guide a discussion how we can learn and use software in a way that allows…
In this introductory salon to this series all about classical music, host Linus Lu asks: what is classical music? What does it consist of, and what is it really about? How can one begin to approach this art form, which can be both so ubiquitous and obscure? Classical music is most definitely Bach, Mozart, and…
In these Interintellect workshop salons, Sylvia R helps us to master the art of short fiction – by reading some of the greatest short story writers and applying their techniques. In this session, we’ll start reading “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”, George Saunders’s literary masterclass on what makes great stories work (based on the nineteenth-century…
In this salon, Interintellect Timothy Wilcox hosts a reading of James Joyce's famously dense and mysterious book Finnegan's Wake. One of the most challenging – and yet, also one of the most alluring – books of all time is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. In a defense of the novel (then still Work in Progress), Samuel Beckett…
Join London ii Hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK to discuss and examine Sir Francis Bacon’s scientific philosophy and other views, exploring how his ideas might be relevant (or not) in today’s society and how they might serve us into the future. Sir Francis Bacon, the father of modern sciences, lived from the mid-1500s…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát continues her series A History of War with a look at the famous sieges of history, from Masada to Leningrad, from Málaga to Sarajevo, to explore the stages of how civilian life breaks down, but also human resilience, resourcefulness, and perseverance when under attack. We will touch upon deterrence and preemptive…
In this special Salon fellow Interintellects Thomas Arnold and Isabela Granic lead a discussion about the poem "Aubade" by Philip Larkin. In this salon we start not with a set theme or topic, but with an activity-- reading and reflecting on a single poem, finding out where it takes us. We will start with Philip…
