Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
mientierra – from the Spanish miente (she/he lies) and tierra (land). It means "a false sense of solid ground beneath us", says Escott, to describe the experience of not being able to trust the land near a retreating coastline. It could also be applied as a metaphor for contemporary structures and systems that seem robust, but are not
Richard Fisher • Why We Need New Words for Life in the Anthropocene
A whiff of emotion, a whim, a half-joking suggestion, can be the basis for doing a new behavior or elaborating an old one.
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
Covid brought in its train a parallel epidemic of worker exhaustion. The stress and social dislocation resulting from a poorly managed, seemingly interminable public health emergency put limits on what workers could tolerate. Yet burnout’s ubiquity cannot be attributed to Covid alone.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
Prompt power is not benign! The questions we ask ultimately determine the answers we find.
Pocket Observatory • Mass Observation
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I am so excited to announce that we will start Liberation Practice Field with The Social Change Ecosystem Framework created by brilliant Deepa Iyer @deepaviyer . I really wnated to have Deepa on this year so that y’all can clarify your values and identify the different roles that you can... See more
instagram.comIn How to Do Nothing (Jenny Odell) made the case for retreat or refusal as an act of resistance to capitalist productivity and commodified attention. She laid out a plan for “hold[ing] open a contemplative space against the pressures of habit, familiarity, and distraction that constantly threaten to close it.”
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
sometimes the most destabilizing chaos isn’t on the world stage. Nor is it a public outrage or even a shared experience.
It’s found instead in the quiet chaos of our everyday lives: making a home, raising a family, putting a meal on the table. These mundane corners of the human experience are also where we find the loosest pockets of culture today:
... See moreJasmine Bina • A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures
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