Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát at a friendly debate on Greta Gerwig's movie Barbie. We will explore its style, message, humour, and success - or failure - as a feminist movie!…
Join host and exiting New Yorker Timothy Wilcox for an IRL meetup of Interintellect members at the massive Metropolitan Museum of Art. Come meet with community members in New York City, including at least one visiting guest. We will have time to walk, talk, and see incredible art collections. The museum is pay-what-you-wish for NY,…
Join Phil Filippak for the next episode of a series about critical rationalism and major ideas from David Deutsch’s book The Beginning of Infinity. We’ll discuss beauty and its objectivity! Is it possible that all beauty is subject to yet unknown but stringent laws? May all paintings and sculptures and songs be described by some complicated but precise…
Ben Fleming invites you to come and move in this London IRL salon all about action and the human body. Join us for a truly dynamic and unique salon focused on movement! This is a rare chance to combine intellectual discussion with physical exploration, and experience both theory and action at once. We'll be delving…
Philosopher Michael Spicher and guest host, art strategist Pato Paez discuss how to approach buying art. Buying art is an emotional process. Unlike a functional object with a warranty, art’s value is not determined by its functional metrics. How then, do you dive into the world of art collecting without the fear of making poor…
Plagues, sexual taboo, war, ecstatic violence, and the cost of self-knowledge – join Thomas Arnold for the first in this series on Reading Greek Tragedy for a World on Fire, where we will probe the voices and technologies of Greek tragedy for our current moment. The first salon will delve into questions of what Greek …
Anna Motz and Maggie Fishman are in conversation about the creation of safe, non-judgemental places where children and adults can learn about themselves and the world.
Join us for an offline salon in San Francisco where we explore the art in everyday objects, sharing how mundane beauty inspires our creativity and enriches our lives. An object…
Join playwright Matthew Gasda (Dimes Square, Zoomers) and novelist Tara Isabella Burton (Here in Avalon) for a conversation about chronicling the post-pandemic era, the "vibe shift" of 2020-22, and capturing…
Join Archer Lim, a Developer Relations, Community, Facilitation, and Product Marketing professional with a background in organizing, education, and strategy development. He was reared professionally in high-growth startup environments and,…
Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series is a masterpiece of utopian worldbuilding. The author is a historian and professor of Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Humanist studies, and she uses those ideals to build a…
Clerks, La Haine, Breaking the Waves, Jurassic Park... Were the 1990s a golden age for cinema, or are we just nostalgic? Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát - who worked as a screenwriter and film critic in her twenties - for an exploration of why this era was so special. Required reading: 'Schindler's List' by Roger…
