Keely Adler

What does the future hold looking ahead from the third decade of the third millennium? Despite unprecedented economic and technological progress, the world as we know it is unraveling, sharp social and wealth inequalities persist, political ideologies abound, and climate change is overdetermined. Because these socio-economic, political and

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Write about those lessons as you learn them. If at all possible, publish what you write. Even if it is published to an audience of no one, you will be able to point people back to it later.

Any industry or organization can benefit – indeed, thrive – by adding generalists to the mix.

When we’re attentive to these series, to their form, their narrative structure, their genre, their history, their cultural context, the dynamics of their production, they reveal themselves to us. (This is, of course, what television studies, as an academic discipline, has always done.) It means we can see concretely what’s unique about a given... See more

“I really like talking with people about what they think could be changed, or what solutions they think we should do, and then talking about what solutions have been created or are being created,” Hidalgo says. “That makes me more excited than just thinking about how many issues there are. I like to look at it as an opportunity to do something... See more

politics as an exercise in personal wish fulfillment rather than as a site for collective action.

I want us to resist absolutist or binary claims about religion (ie: “Religion is violent!” “Religion caused all the major wars in the world!”) that release other agents of power from their accountability in the world’s problems.