Keely Adler

“Peoplehood sounds like a natural culmination of how we think about spirituality and commerce in 2022,” Ms. Burton said.

It is a framework that centers not just the loss of physical shelter, but the loss of cultural continuity, collective memory, and the spatial foundations of identity. […]

Where genocide seeks the destruction of a people, domicide describes the destruction of the spaces that allow a people to exist. It names a violence that is both physical and

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Or maybe we should just give up entirely on optimism or pessimism—we have to do this work no matter how we feel about it. So by force of will or the sheer default of emergency we make ourselves have utopian thoughts and ideas.

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability and constants, about similarities and normal and kinds, about magical transformations, quick cures, simple problems, and final solutions. Yet the world we try to symbolize with this language is a world of

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What I’ve found since 2020 is that there is some relief in acknowledging the Here. While I believe my son’s life may be materially worse off than my own, I think about how it could possibly be better too — psychologically, spiritually, and collectively. I think about how many of the social problems we lament — the mental health crisis among young

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Activation Residency is designed for you to be the master of your body and experiences, which is at the core of abolition and liberation work. How do we let people be free?

Beyond that, the community knowledge is also emerging, as the broader web3 community increasingly begins to document what works, even if, like magic, so much of this world can seem impenetrable to those not yet in it (and we need to work harder on magical user experiences).

3) Be patient to get there faster