Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
a series of symptoms by which we might diagnose someone with a Borg complex:
- Makes grandiose, but unsupported claims for technology
- Uses the term Luddite a-historically and as a casual slur
- Pays lip service to, but ultimately dismisses genuine concerns
- Equates resistance or caution to reactionary nostalgia
- Starkly and matter-of-factly frames the case
L. M. Sacasas • Manufactured Inevitability and the Need for Courage
If some part of your body, speech, or demeanor falls short of respectability norms, you get it. The way we labor and struggle (and are variously able) to bridge that gap is never the same but it is always, in some way, painful. The pain is at once celebrated and invisibilized; within our social rubric, suffering is a fair price for perfection but... See more
Our society has conditioned us to live in fear of our own bodies — to understand them as rebellious and expensive, shameful and corruptible, in need of discipline and utmost vigilance. It's no wonder we treat others' bodies, particularly bodies we view as less disciplined as our own, with the same logic. We degrade and judge others because we... See more
the domino meme (courtesy of visakan, i’m pretty sure)
To be ignored, to be forgotten, this was the worst sadness of all. I swore an oath to set down their accomplishments and praise their flourishings, no matter how small. I would be a chronicler of lost stories.