In this Interintellect Salon, Taylor Pullinger will lead a discussion on resilience – in people, in nature, in systems. Sometimes things go wrong – it’s how we respond that makes all the difference. In the face of adversity we could break down and give up, we could rigidly stand firm against it, or we could…
Fellow Interintellect Alex Yao explores how polymaths and Internet remix culture use combinatory play to create new works. "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought." —…
A kickoff for our new Dead Economists Society Salon series – hosted by Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin “Imagine a world in which all major private wealth (every factory, patent or plot of land) is constantly for sale at a fair price and where most of the value of this property is paid out equally to all citizens as a…
In his debut Interintellect Salon, Cameron Harwick will examine the mindsets of our ancestors, and whether we have anything in common with them. It’s easy enough to see how we live differently from our ancestors. You’re reading this on a device that connects you instantly to people all over the world. For that matter, you’re reading it,…
Zadie Smith, Carver, Fitzgerald… In this new Interintellect Salon series, Sylvia R helps us to master the art of short fiction – through reading some of the greatest short story writers together! “That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.” ― Raymond Carver “Critics often use the term "minimalist"…
Join David Valerio as he continues his series on Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building. The Timeless Way of Building is a classic of architectural philosophy. It presents the organic, fractal, and down-to-earth way that we evolved buildings in the past, and serves as a biting critique of the top-down, authoritarian, and alienating approach to the “design” of…
Fellow Interintellect Timothy Wilcox invites you to rethink the paces of reading and writing for the texting generation. Come talk about narrative structure, texting, and social drama. What can we…
In this Interintellect Salon, fellow Interintellect Violeta (aka, Maman Lunettes ?) will examine a modern contention: Children who have lots of screen time early in life will be easily distractible adults, with rewired brains. Or so we hear, from studies on juvenile rats. But we're left with many questions after reading such headlines as we're raising…
About the series: After her popular Salon series History of Love, Interintellect founder Anna Gát returns to complete the picture: how the history of conflict and warfare underpinned our journey from wilderness-dwellers into masters of complex civilisations - our conquest of the world and our complicated march toward progress. We will discuss war both as…
In this Interintellect Salon, Suzan Bond and Maggie Appleton will explore the curious cultural rituals, rites of passage, and social roles that define the “tech” industry today – or rather, our lack of them. “Tech” is presented as a place for dreamers who long to disrupt the status quo. This ethos permeates everything from institutional…
Patricia Hurducas continues her exploration: What is it about mountains that awakens the human mind’s playfulness and curiosity? What is awe? Should Thoreau’s Walden be more widely read…? "I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.” - Nan Shepherd On the second part of the Mountains Are…
Fellow Interintellects Katrina Dela Cruz and Mind Apivessa continue their exploration into the history, present, and future of education. Our past salons on education have shown us that while our values on education may differ, our experiences of "the educational system" are quite similar. Parents praising straight A's. Peers aspiring for Ivy League degrees. Information to memorize for…
