In her debut Interintellect Workshop Salon, Julia Racsko will go beyond criticising the attention economy and set out to create an alternative by exploring our understanding of attention through drawing. All of our lives: our perceptions, memories, emotions are mediated through our attentional capacities, yet it is often discussed in terms of productivity or time…
In this Interintellect salon, Taylor Pullinger will host a conversation with Erik Hoel, inspired his recently published novel The Revelations. " Somewhere, lost in that tower of Babel, that library of Borges, was the theory of consciousness. The one and only correct theory an infinitesimal needle in an infinite haystack. To see a glimpse… It would fit…
Join economist, social technologist and RadicalXChange founder Glen Weyl and Interintellect co-hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for this special members-only salon! Glen Weyl is a rare force in academia, public discourse, and movement building. One of the world’s foremost political economists, he co-invented groundbreaking systems such as quadratic voting to help societies make better…
Join Liz Voeller on an exploration through one of Herbert Simon’s key concepts and what it means for addressing complexity in our own lives. Systems demonstrate the property of “near-decomposability”…
In this salon, Zac Yap and Yudhistira lead a discussion on the potential harms of formal education through schools and college, and possible paths of reimagining education from scratch. Drawing on Ivan Illich's 1971 book titled Deschooling Society, we critically evaluate, update and extend the book's arguments across cultures and borders. Has the vision of…
In this Salon, Indy Neogy will lead a conversation about the pleasures and perils of "being an autodidact." Most of us in the current historical moment are only part autodidact - we've learned many things on our own, but also learned quite a bit from others. At the same time, the growth in communication technologies…
In this deeply interactive and immersive salon, Dhrupad Karwa (Dhru) will humbly attempt to unravel the mysteries of "inspiration", through the unique lens of culture and technology. Dhru is the founder and CEO of Inspo - a search engine for inspiration, designed to enrich creative thinking on any topic. Inspo is an AI-human hybrid tool…
Interintellect Tom Beakbane discusses the divisions in society and how they might be reconciled. Here are four suppositions about our collective predicament: Society is undergoing extremely rapid change resulting from technological developments. The institutions that have historically provided social cohesion and sensemaking are proving inadequate. Levels of social anxiety are increasing and society is fractionating…
Michael S. Malone, the author of The Big Score, a book recently republished by Stripe Press joins Matjaz Leonardis and Daniel Thomason for an exciting conversation about the past, present and future of Silicon Valley and the culture, values and personalities that have defined it. Michael S. Malone has covered tech and lived in Silicon Valley for…
This salon with Alex Danco will be all about Information. We'll start by covering Claude Shannon's Information Theory - really wrap our heads around what it means when we say, "Information isn't what you say, it's what's understood." It's not a noun, it's a verb; it's not the baseball, it's the pitch. We'll cover Information…
Rosano invites you to this salon discussing pathways to overcome division. — Post-salon update: read takeaways from our conversation. — What are some ways to deal with misinformation and filter bubbles? Is this phenomenon particular to our heavily politicized present? When ideologies differ, how can we find common ground? How does technology play into these…
In this salon, Rachel Tan leads a discussion on the book titled On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience by Michael D. Gordin. In this book, the author attempts to explore the philosophical and historical attempts of how something is relegated to the realm of pseudoscience. An assortment of topics studied and analysed include age-old…
