Keely Adler

We need individuals and communities that serve these liminal times by calling them into being with the fullness of their senses and with a compassionate dedication to realizing instances of these new futures in the present. Transforming fragmentation into cohering fragments of integral futures. Doing the difficult work that is both material and... See more

"How do we write, create, remember when tools are discontinuous archives replaced every few years?"

Internet as carnival time (Bakhtin): cyclical, regenerative, collective, inversions, acceleration & simultaneity. Classical body: closed, completed, finished. Grotesque body: open, in process.

The wrong metaphor doesn't just fail to describe — it actively obscures. Makes you feel like you're doing it wrong.

Exformation (Tor Nørretranders): the hidden background of experience, associations, memories, culture, bodily knowledge that makes meaning possible. "We think we're communicating with words, but we're really communicating our entire worlds." When society loses shared stories, loses shared exformation — words no longer rest on same ground.

A reckoning with what it costs to hold things together, and what becomes possible when you stop holding so tight.