Dear Friends, To continue our August 28 gathering, we will come together once again to celebrate friendship, community, Interintellect, and each other. Aim for City Vineyard - the exact location will be shared via email and in the Interintellect forum's #new_york channel. Warmly, Anna *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of Conduct 📚 Become a member, get…
This is the seventh and last session in Étienne Fortier-Dubois's series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. We'll discuss artificial intelligence, our relationship to machines, and the possibility of humanoid beings that aren't quite human. Feel free to join even if you haven’t attended the previous parts! Ted Chiang…
This salon with Alex Danco will be all about Information. We'll start by covering Claude Shannon's Information Theory - really wrap our heads around what it means when we say, "Information isn't what you say, it's what's understood." It's not a noun, it's a verb; it's not the baseball, it's the pitch. We'll cover Information…
Interintellect host Linus Lu continues his series all about classical music by exploring the relationship between classical music and history. Classical music has long been influenced by—and been an influence on—other art forms. From operas based on myths and works of literature, to films using classical music in their soundtracks, we’ll discuss how classical music interacts with different types of…
In this first salon of a mini-series, Judit Petho explores what makes living in a buzzing metropolis exciting and difficult to quit “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford” said Dr Samuel Johnson in 1777. Most Londoners would echo…
In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy leads a talk about tiredness, rest, and doing nothing. I'm tired. Are you tired? We're all tired. We live in tiresome times. We should probably rest. Is there time to rest? Let's talk about it! Let's talk about the psychology of it, and about the assumptions we have about…
In this salon, Dave Crouch will host a conversation about the predictions and perspectives of famed sci-fi author William Gibson, called "The Father of Cyberspace". As we move into a future that many writers would think too crazy to publish, we will talk about what kind of futures we may be headed for and how…
In her debut salon, Silvia Bastos will host a conversation about deliberately using constraints to help us unlock, direct, and increase our creative power. Dr. Seuss's wrote his book Green Eggs and Ham using only fifty different words. The Beatles recorded their whole album Please Please Me in one day. To fight procrastination, Neil Gaiman…
In this Dead Economists Society Salon Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss people (after all, the economy is, ultimately, the sum total of the choices made by individuals like you and I) - what makes us different and how are we the same. “Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make…
In this salon, Zohar Atkins continues his conversation on Heidegger’s philosophy with a focus on art and artists. What makes a work of art great? What does it look like to make one's life a work of art? Is art a modern substitute for religion? What role should artists play in society? What can poetry…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát revisits legendary TV series Mad Men to explore the complicated history of midcentury women whose struggles in the workplace and the home foreshadowed many of today's difficulties and victories. Accompanying its characters during one of the most turbulent and transformational decades of the 20th century, the TV series Mad Men lives…
In the Writer's Corner workshop salons hosted by Sylvia R, we gather to discuss and learn from some of the greatest writers and works of literature. In this session, the focus will be on Jorge Luis Borges's short story "Death and the Compass". The workshop will be structured as follows: Section 1: Discuss This is an…
