Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
This demands a shift from the industrial growth economy to what Joanna Macy calls a “life-sustaining society.” It is a cultural, political, and ecological pivot: from growth to sufficiency, from extraction to kinship, from centralised control to distributed resilience.
Patrick Tanguay (Sentiers) • 📡 No.392 — A Country of Geniuses ⊗ Collapse: A Framework
On a recent Saturday, a group of about 100 people in conical gnome hats gathered in Manhattan for the second annual “Scathing Hatred of Information Technology and the Passionate Hemorrhaging of Our Neo-liberal Experience” conference. The unorthodox gathering was organized by the Lamp Club, a group for people with Luddite tendencies — or at least... See more
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Alexandr Wang • Betting on Unknown Unknowns - by Alexandr Wang Betting on Unknown Unknowns
My job is helping people who are building the future understand the cultural and emotional systems shaping it and right now, the problem is we are still building for an economy of participation when we're entering an economy where participation itself has become the liability.
Jasmine Bina • Repricing the Human Experience
We cannot know when the time will be ripe for any particular idea. The task of creators is to keep options alive and open and not to be too constrained by the limitations of a present that may be suddenly transformed—by a depression, war, a dramatic collapse of political trust, or a pandemic.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The organizing principle of the modern world is pain. To build a world that is truly sustainable and just, pleasure needs to replace pain and become the new organizing principle of our future .
Pleasure Activism
Even if 80% of adults still live within two hours of their parents, as of 2016, only one in five American families has a “stay-at-home” parent (an increasingly antiquated word to describe not working for pay). An estimated 16.8 percent of the population — 41.8 million people — currently provides care for adult over 50, a number that will only... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
After talking about the blur I started to reflect on how to tackle in parallel some of my short, mid, and long-term goals. Different plates need to be balanced at the same time. Some of these goals are individual but most of them also involve some collective vision. When I am in a safe space, my basic needs are attended to, I'm not worried about... See more
Nogueira de Menezes • #016 Unlearning time
Recently, chaos – or more specifically, ‘chaotic energy’ – has become increasingly prominent in memes and media coverage alike. The origins of chaotic energy could potentially be tracked back to one of my own first run-ins with it: Character Alignment Charts.