Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Different as it sounds, this kind of triumphalism had something in common with paralysed heartbreak. One rested in arrogant assurance, while the other rested in despair. Both saw the future as something offstage, rather than as the thing we were always creating in every moment, whether we acknowledged it or not. And both forgot that essential truth
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Thanks to digital technology, we can all become film directors, musicians and game-makers. Mass creativity is possible as never before. But this isn’t quite the imaginative golden age it should be. Instead, powerful forces seem to be stunting creativity and promoting conformism, complacency, institutional inertia and a fear of being too different.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Social media intensify this kind of communication without community. You cannot forge a public sphere out of influencers and followers.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
What if the words we have access to are part of what keeps potential energy trapped as yearning? What if our existing vocabulary isn't up to the task of bridging that gap?
RADAR • Spells, Vibes, and Thick Imagination
We may never choose to winter, but we can choose how.
Katherine May • Wintering
it doesn’t have to be this way. We can create infrastructures of care — on both a societal and community level.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
Maybe friction was never the problem. Maybe it was the point. 🌻
#effort #friction #luxury
instagram.comAny explanation for the rise of the pop oligopoly has to answer two questions: why have producers started producing more of the same thing, and why are consumers consuming it? I think the answers to the first question are invasion, consolidation, and innovation. I think the answer to the second question is proliferation.
