Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
within the greater content ecosystem, fans are “active agents collectively determining the validity of the ‘official’ storyline.” Their engagement matters more than their canonical contribution.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
I’d let those likes be an evaluation of the time I spent on the experience I just lived.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
We are, each and every one of us, a collection of our lived experiences. Our lived experiences shape us, how we interact with the world, and how we live in the world. And our experiences are valid.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
Lean into what's irreplaceable: Cultural intuition. Ethical reasoning. Embodied perception. Systems thinking. The ability to hold complexity without reducing it. These don't just survive automation - they become more valuable as everything else gets commoditised.
zoe scaman • The Work
Q: How did you balance chaos and cohesion?
A: A running joke has been that Chaos is the most organized project we've done so far, and it’s because of these containers we've designed to make people feel oriented when they show up.
A: A running joke has been that Chaos is the most organized project we've done so far, and it’s because of these containers we've designed to make people feel oriented when they show up.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • Inside the Internet's First 77-Artist "Headless Band"
I don't think we're going to enter a world where any one way wins the day. But I think we are starting to wake up to the contemporary over-indexing towards the voice of the crowd, when it comes to the distillation of that being an algorithmic culture and understanding.
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
Yet as in the archives, “new evidentiary technologies” and techniques — including remote sensing and forensic fossil seed analysis — are revealing the forest’s topographically hidden, and politically erased, scripts and structures; they’re demonstrating how, in the words of ecologist William Balée, the forest constitutes a “vast archaeological... See more
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
cultures, audiences, and meaning operate on layered time:
• Spiral time: What's old returns transformed not repetition, but reformation.
• Deep time: Strategy shaped by legacy, myth, generations. Moves beneath the quarterly surface.
• Rupture time: Crisis, collapse, revelation. Not gradual change but cultural fracture and reassembly.
zoe scaman • The Work
➿ listening to the sound of being alive〰️
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My creative ritual and meditation webinar DISCIPLINE IS PLEASURE: HOW TO CREATE STRUCTURE, HABITS, AND RITUALS TO BUILD YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE 🌒 is livestreaming this SUNDAY (10/26) and will be recorded for unlimited replay access for all... See more
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