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 learn about ourselves through thinking what it means to have characters be always online? And how might we rethink the stories we tell, both creative…
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…
In his latest Interintellect Salon, Visakan Veerasamy will lead a discussion about how we might be able to catalyze productive intellectual scenes in our modern age. "Why are some periods and places so astonishingly more productive than the rest?" – in his 1997 essay "The problem of excess genius," David Banks argued that this…
In the third Salon of this special series, hosts Scott Davies and Olena Bulygina continue their collective exploration of the topic of neurodiversity and the neurodivergent. In previous sessions, discussions have focused on several aspects of this topic, including defining these terms, challenges faced by the neurodiverse including employment, relationships and various aspects of identity.…
Fellow Interintellect Linus Lu invites you to discuss the different ways we choose to present our weaknesses to ourselves and to the world. One of the most dreaded interview questions is "What is your greatest weakness?" You feel put into a double-bind: you don't want to totally evade the question and seem like you're…
Interintellect Anwar AlKandari will lead a discussion on inspiration – where do we find it? How can we get more inspired? What do our muses reveal about ourselves? In a scene of “Anne with an E” TV show where Anne feels uninspired, together with her friend Cole they stand at the top of a mountain…
