This year marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, by some measures the most widely cited academic of the past hundred years. Often vilified on the right… Continue reading SOLD OUT! Why Foucault Matters – Reading Group with COMPACT’s Sohrab Ahmari and Geoff Shullenberger in NYC!
Join host Thomas Arnold with your questions, scenarios, hopes, and fears about AI, as we explore with Julian Togelius author of "Artificial General Intelligence", what the horizon of AI looks like today and what his book might help us notice. Amid so much hype about Artificial General Intelligence (whose arrival is now cast in thousands…
Hollywood screenwriter Michael Sonnenschein, The Common Reader essayist, literary critic, and Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life writer Henry Oliver, and former screenwriter-playwright and now… Continue reading What Happened to Great Stories? – What TV and Literature Should Learn from Each Other
I’m a man with no power. Does that make me a woman? This line from an anonymous Mattel employee might seem like a cheap joke, but MIT professor Sally Haslanger… Continue reading Engineering Concepts: Barbie’s Philosophical World
Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Leah and Astra together developed the first in-depth examination and intellectual history of solidarity. We will discuss the… Continue reading Solidarity – Author Talk with Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor | New Labor Book Series #19
In this introductory salon, we’ll define key terms like “psychedelic” and “set and setting” in order to show how Jewish wisdom, practices, and narrative can serve as both the container… Continue reading Judaism is Psychedelic
Join hosts Alaka Halder and Benjamin Woosley for a casual meetup at Easy Tiger in North Austin! This Interintellect offline gathering is a casual meetups devoted to open group discussions… Continue reading Austin IRL: November Meetup in North Austin
From the acclaimed author of How I Became a Tree, an enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world “A striking mix… Continue reading Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries – A Conversation with author Sumana Roy
Join Charlene Putney to delve into the life of Ivan Denisovich as we continue our trip down Western Canon Book Club series. This is the perfect book club read: it's… Continue reading Reading Group: One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
A grandson of the Baal Shem Tov (the founder of Hasidic Judaism), Rebbe Nachman (1772-1810) originally from Bratslav, Ukraine, is growing in popularity to this day as thousands of pilgrims travel to his gravesite in Uman, Ukraine, every year, even during the war, to pray and connect spiritually. Rebbe Nachman is known for his mandate…
Join hosts Alaka Halder and Benjamin Woosley for a casual meetup in East Austin! This Interintellect offline gathering is a casual meetups devoted to open group discussions of the topics that interest participants the most. From philosophy to science and art, there is nothing that escapes our inquiries! Come, forge new friendships, reconnect with existing friends, and dive…
In Second Chances Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Philips discuss how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again. Both Shakespeare and Freud believed that we can narrate our life stories as tales of transformation.…
