Silence is more of an idea. A notion. The silence around us may contain a lot, but the most interesting kind of silence is the one that lies within. A silence which each of us must create. About this Event If the early 21st century seemed hellbent on depriving us of silence, the current pandemic,…
Former washingtonpost.com CEO, investor Christopher Schroeder joins us for a discussion about the future of the news industry: it seems to be the consensus that decentralisation is inevitable, but exactly will it happen? And how can you not miss out? Global tech/venture investor Christopher Schroeder is also the former CEO of washingtonpost.com. He has backed…
Interintellects Lucas and Clo invite you to this intimate Salon, for a deep dive, exploring the ways music playfully shapes our lives. --- Music plays an important role in our lives, as it can affect our mood and our taste. How can we not understand the lyrics and yet still feel them? How does music…
Matt Groh and Bill Powers host a discussion of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World and explore how gifts and gift giving are at the core of creativity in art, science, and beyond. What distinguishes art from commodities? 42 years ago, Lewis Hyde's The Gift argued that the work of…
Interintellect Maybe Gray invites you to explore our tendency to see "Good" and "Bad" separately in ourselves, our relationships, and our political perspectives. “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts.…
In this salon, debut host Lukas Rosenstock and returning host Vajresh Balaji will discuss our growing social circles and the tools we use to manage them. Humans probably evolved in smaller tribes where everybody knew everyone else. Dunbar’s number says there are around 150 relationships we can retain in our heads. Modern life, on the…
Writer, painter, and Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explores whether real art and good business are really the moral opposites they’re taught to be. How do you get rich by being an artist? How can you be an artist, maybe even a performance artist, at whatever you do? How can that way of thinking help…
Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In Part 3, we discuss non-human beings and how their psychology and biology may differ from ours. Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though he cannot be described as prolific — his entire…
Join London ii Hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK to discuss the life and views of Plato, as well as his great teacher Socrates, exploring how their ideas might be relevant (or not) in today’s society and how they might serve us in the future. This salon is the first of an 11-month Interintellect series…
We are gathering to celebrate late bloomers – all those who started late in love, their career, as writers… Come join us! In our crazy-fast-paced 21st century we live in, we like to lament that all of culture caters to the young: TikTok is teeming with teenagers, pop stars are under the legal drinking age,…
Alex Danco joins fellow Interintellects for a Salon about the philosophy of René Girard, the (in)famous father of modern mimetic theory. We're going to get together and talk about René Girard, and his grand theory of mimetic behaviour. Sub-topics will likely include: -Scapegoating, cancel culture, and online mobs -How Silicon Valley works (founder as God-king-sacrifice;…
“Unfortunately, many analysts – in academia, special-interest groups, governments, and the press – still presume that common-pool problems are all dilemmas in which the participants themselves cannot avoid producing suboptimal results, and in some cases disastrous results.” ~ Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons The tragedy of the commons is all too common. From climate change…
