Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
LLMs introduce a temporality that is genuinely new: one that forces us to invent new cultural modes of production. How do we write, create, and remember in an environment where our tools are discontinuous archives, replaced every few years? How do we treat cultural memory when it arrives in frozen epochs, each already obsolete the moment it
... See moreIn a techno-social world that is dominantly organized by the pressures of linear feeds, we need digital spaces and frameworks that celebrate the ideas that are seeds just as much as the fully formed blooms.
In the old world of broadcast communication that Naomi Klein wrote about, promotion was limited to a few channels, so multinationals with massive advertising budgets had the power to sell a brand monoculture. Now every night, on Twitter, on Instagram, on TikTok, we scroll and see brands smushed up next to real people in the feed. Branding
... See moreSo I suppose if you want to find more examples of cosy, then one place to look is volunteering, because that's when the cost of human work drops to zero because it is being freely given for nothing for whatever reason. And we know that the cost of volunteering over time can be burnout.