Free to Browse: Organic Contexts for Tech and Media Literacy

KORNIENKO コニンコー (that's me, Sophia Kornienko), journalist, animation artist and the host of the UnschoolingFuture Podcast, invites you to become part of her new project about kids' and teens' digital freedoms. I am writing/ illustrating a book, Free to Browse: Organic Contexts for Tech and Media Literacy (working title). Drawing from my family's experience as…

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Through the Pillars of Hercules: The Invention of Science Fiction in the Ancient World

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Join Classicist Ashley Mehra and linguist Colin Gorrie to explore the roots of science fiction in the ancient world. In the second century Roman Empire, the Syrian satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote a short novel called A True Story (Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Latin: Vera Historia). In A True Story, the author reports a series of…

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Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman – Author Talk with Yvonne Martinez | New Labor Author Series #7

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Join us for our next author talk in our worker organizing series, with Yvonne Martinez to discuss her new memoir, Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman. The book chronicles Yvonne’s upbringing and family history in a Mexican family in Utah, weaving together how discoveries about family secrets including…

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Excavating Man from Myth: Chaïm Soutine and the Cultural Power of Apocrypha

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Chaïm Soutine's paintings hang in major art museums the world over, and yet much of what is said about the man and his work is untrue. In this salon, writer Celeste Marcus, now at work on the first English language biography of Soutine, will consider the question: does it matter that we don't know the…

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Becoming a Published Writer: Penguin’s Bria Sandford on Craft and Industry

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Bria Sandford, executive editor at Penguin Random House, joins our community and hosts for a discussion on the book business in 2023, and how those with writing talent and ambition can get a step closer to being published in print. Members only exclusive, hosted by Anna Gát. *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of Conduct

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Hoarding in the Digital Age

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How many tabs do you have open right now? How many unread emails or drafts of your latest document? Join Columbia Professor and professional tab hoarder Annie Pfeifer to explore hoarding and clutterphobia as timely afflictions of the information age. The psychologists Randy Frost and Gail Steketee define hoarding through three characteristics: The failure to discard a… Continue reading Hoarding in the Digital Age

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*MEMBERS ONLY* Community Chats | Reading

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Interintellect Community Manager Nicky Buttigieg hosts a casual hangout to chat about what we've been reading. Let's talk about what we've been spending our time reading—books, poems, blog posts, newsletterism whatever you've been enjoying and curious about! *** 🗓 ii Calendar | 📋 Code of Conduct | 📚 Become a Member

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Community Chats | Reading

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Nicky Buttigieg hosts a members-only hangout to chat about what we've been reading. Let's talk about what we've been spending our time reading—books, poems, blog posts, newsletters, whatever you've been enjoying and curious about! *** 🗓 ii Calendar | 📋 Code of Conduct | 📚 Become a Member

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London IRL: Bryan Kam on Neither/Nor

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In this exciting in-person discussion, please join Interintellect fellow Bryan Kam to discuss his original philosophical work. No background in the subject is required. We live in two worlds: one of language, logic, concepts, and abstractions — and another, of sensations, experience, and intuition. They're inseparable and enrich one another, but each world has its…

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