On May 11, Interintellect founder Anna Gát returns to discuss aspects of warfare, with a look at wartime production and inventions. We will discuss necessity and motivation, coordination and mass production, new physics and statistics: all the steel, bullets, zippers, airplanes – and the social change that takes place as they roll off the conveyor belt. This…
Interintellect Maybe Gray and co-host Sadalsvvd invite you to explore the many myths and meanings that make up increasingly prevalent practice of astrology. Though astrology dates back to the ancient world, a modern revival of astrological practices has been unfolding over the past several decades. With modern technology, the tools for these practices have become…
George Packer, author of the National Book Award-winning The Unwinding, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century and, most recently, Last Best Hope, joins Morten Høi Jensen to discuss a life of writing, reporting, and thinking about America and its place in the world. “What…
Welcome to the first salon of a mini-series on all things community hosted by Lucia Asanache - she will explore, with support from wonderful guests, the power and potential of communities for improving our society. Inspired by her work building global communities around tech policy at the Tony Blair Institute, Lucia is keen to share…
In this SuperSalon, writer Luke Burgis joins Interintellect hosts Bronwyn Williams and Alaka Halder to discuss mimesis, markets, manias, and why we tend to want what she’s having. “The truth is that my desires are derivative, mediated by others, and that I’m part of an ecology of desire that is bigger than I can fully…
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, Interintellect hosts Zac Yap and Geffen Avraham lead a discussion on the commercialisation of space through private actors, and how it impacts the governance of outer space. By 2030, as many as 10 million people could travel to space, with 80,000 guests staying at space hotels and other facilities annually. The launch…
In this salon, Peter Hartree hosts a discussion of Holden Karnofsky’s ‘Most Important Century’ blog post series. Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, addressing the United Nations, September 22, 2021: We have come to that fateful age when we know roughly how to drive and we know how to unlock the drinks cabinet and to engage…
