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…
In this Interintellect Salon, Indy Neogy asks if the brave new world of the internet is still reproducing old hierarchies of interaction. The hot new app of the moment - Clubhouse - replicates a very standard arrangement: speakers on the dais, listeners sat below and literally mute. Are we reproducing something here? What might be? We…
Matt Clifford returns to conclude his Lessons from the Middle Ages series with a realistic exploration of medieval violence, penalty and war. After exploring religion and power, In our third salon in “Lessons from the Middle Ages” series, we turn our focus to violence and war - topics that are deeply intertwined with the themes of our first…
Fellow Interintellect Alex Yao explores the importance of systems thinking and networked thought for tackling complex problems. “Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses — especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” — Leonardo Da Vinci When we follow our curiosity of a subject…
In a frank conversation, Interintellect founder Anna Gát explores why, despite all the self-help books, society does reward some unhealthy behaviours, and how one can emotionally and morally relate to this. In the 21st century, it is not an unfamiliar feeling to be pushed to unhealthy behaviour patterns: the gastro market is out there…
