In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy will discuss bullsh*t. Literally. Life would be relatively simple if we only had to deal with truths and falsehoods. But in reality, effectively everything is incorrect to some degree of error – and worse, lots of people are indifferent to the truthfulness of a thing. Lots of people are…
In this salon Interintellects Kushaan Shah and Amir H. Hajizamani host a discussion about the cultural merits of social media platform Tik Tok TikTok has taken the world by storm. With more than 600 million users, TikTok has ignited a creative revolution during the pandemic and introduced new trends in fashion, commerce, health and so much more. What was once…
Interintellects Aaron Lewis and Josh Morin host an IRL meet-up in Washington DC Bring a blanket and a snack and gather with your fellow D.C. interintellects in a new alley park behind 1931 13th Street NW. Let's enjoy some quality outdoors time together after a long year of Zoom windows. The park was an abandoned…
“How would Kurt Vonnegut describe what I’m going through?” is one question anyone could ask in times of trouble and peril, knowing the result would be at once honest, compassionate, hilarious, and optimistic. This salon, hosted by Eyal Shay, will be a place for participants to become familiar with a real-life hero and reflect on…
Join London ii Hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK to discuss the life and philosophy of Baruch de Spinoza, exploring how his ideas might be relevant (or not) in today's society and how they might lead us into a tolerant and progressive future. Baruch de Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher with Portuguese Jewish origins, was born in Amsterdam in…
Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In Part 6 — which you can join even if you haven't attended the previous parts — we discuss intelligence enhancement and superintelligence. Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though he cannot be…
In this new salon series, showrunner Balazs Juszt and his Hollywood friends dive into the truths and lies of storytelling: What can we take away from the psychological insights of screenwriting? What are the ways in which showbusiness lies to you? First episode guest: Peter Webber *** You go to your usual grocery store, or…
Ahead of Jamie Lombardi's July 7 salon for the discussion and analysis of Albert Camus's The State of Siege, the Interintellect community holds a members-only reading of the play. Hosted by Anna Gát. It will be in our usual format: Zoom with names changed to what your role is, self-casting, we'll record it If you…
During this Interintellect Curation Series Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion on the topic of curation in three parts: Understanding the Curator (Part 1), Copying the Curator (Part 2), and Becoming the Curator (Part 3). In the second part of the series - Copying the Curator - we will look at famous curators, favorite…
In this salon, literary critic and self-proclaimed atheist Morten Høi Jensen leads a discussion about the future of atheism. In his essay “Anxiety About God in an Ostensibly Godless Age,” the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski argued that the weakening of traditional religious belief brought down the certainty of atheism with it. “Ever since Nietzsche proclaimed…
“Imagine being a brain. You’re locked inside a bony skull, trying to figure what’s out there in the world." In this much-awaited salon, Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of the upcoming book Being You – A…
And so it has happened: in many places around the world, we are once again hosting offline events! Of course, after one and a half years of daily Interintellect salons on Zoom, and the many hours of host training and related discussions, you're wondering: How is hosting an offline discussion different from what we do…
