What if you’re an Interintellect, but you just don’t know it yet…? Every day, we come together from across the world to talk about philosophy and science, art and technology, finance and history, religion and music: all the thoughts and emotions we experience as humans, without judgment or certificates. Sometimes we play games, share music,…
In this Dead Economists Society Salon Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin discuss sex, "demography as destiny" and the economy “I think I may fairly make two postulata. First, That food is necessary to the existence of man. Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary and will remain nearly in its present state. These two…
Interintellect hosts Isabela Granic and Thomas Arnold invite you to their next poetry reading salon, this time with "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens. "Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. " Whether you've never read it or have considerable history with the poem…
What if you’re an Interintellect, but you just don’t know it yet…? Everybody thinks their life is weird. Most of us are right. Each of us holds our own brand of weird thing that makes us special, and with it, often comes its own brand of loneliness. Or so we thought. This past year, through…
In this salon, debut host Nicola Brown discusses our relationship with money and the emotions it can generate in us. People don’t really talk about money. We have just started talking…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
In this salon series, Tanya Raj will lead deep-dive discussions on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran and his philosophy on living a life with purpose and meaning. In this salon, we will delve into what does freedom means to every individual, how does passion plays a part in human consciousness, is reason reasonable, and if…
Podcaster, writer, and editor, Nigel Warburton discusses Public Philosophy A chance to discuss what public philosophy is, why it matters, and how best to do it. Nigel Warburton is the main interviewer for the very popular Philosophy Bites podcast which he makes with David Edmonds and which has had more than 42 million episode downloads. He is the…
In his debut salon, venture capitalist Roy Bahat explores the present state of labor organizing -- covering a little bit of history as context and then discussing different approaches at work today, union and otherwise. This will be a broad overview, to explore possible topics for future salons. Most of the focus will be on…
In the second salon of a mini-series on urban life, Judit Petho leads an exploration of the places we will inhabit in the decades to come If you were suddenly transported to a city in 2040, what would you see? Flying cars? Red smoke filling the air like in San Francisco last year? Elevated green…
Join Kelsey Oppenheimer in her debut salon to discuss the anatomy of subcultures, their relation to culture at large, and the identities that have formed around them. In this salon,…
Interintellect Patricia Hurducas will lead a workshop on visual curation – from curation of objects in (virtual) museums and galleries to curation of ideas for our personal projects. How can we become better curators and what does that entail? The workshop will start with a discussion about visual intelligence, aesthetics of ambiguity, taste, storytelling, and…
