Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
But the midwestern town was depicted somewhat differently. It was an “inheritor of values of a mythological founding generation” and a “battleground for the characteristics and actualization of those values,” with the result that it “became the center of a conflict about the future of the country itself.”
phil christman • Small-Town USA
When a place rejects you, you never stop wondering whether it’s your fault; the whole memory becomes like a test you wish you could take again, now that you’ve finally studied for it.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
As some North American urbanites engaged in what Indigenous scholar Kelsey Leonard has called “entitled escapism” — fleeing cramped apartments for more spacious country homes, trading compaction and contagion for “bountiful space” and “fertile suspension” — some sovereign Indigenous nations refused to allow these settler-migrant populations to pass... See more
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
By age 14, nearly half of first-born children in the UK no longer live with both their mother and father.
Freya India • The Age of Abandonment
Christmas and New Year’s are two of the only holidays still widely observed in the United States. Meaning: the vast majority of non-emergency services are off. I’ve alway found it interesting, or clever, or annoying, the way these two holidays were placed an exact week apart: not enough time to really get back in the swing of anything ,
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • How Do You Fall in Love With the in-Between?
what would it mean for brands to stop pointing to culture, and to start being it? To do so, they would have to go far beyond marketing, to offer meaningful modes of participation. Is it even possible for companies to be in service of something greater than themselves?
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
New on Are.na Editorial**an interview with Hugh Francis, @elieilelie and @tohumankind about their growing network of community spaces including @index_space and @ours.today
https://www.are.na/editorial/behind-index-a-growing-network-of-community-spaces
Images by @manuelapbsl @seandavidson... See more
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