Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
So perhaps that means changing the terms of the argument or goal. Perhaps, for the medium-term future at least, "winning" and replacing this enshittified monoculture (yes, I really need to read Cory's book), if it isn't possible, is more about cultivating a base layer, I don't know, some sort of mycelial network that's impossible to nuke out of
... See moreDan Hon • S16e08: Free-Range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise
Whether it’s in our cities, our homes, or our social relations, Mattern continues, “Breakdown is our epistemic and experiential reality...What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together.”
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
People are always seeing and being seen, and in some ways, owning products does constitute one form of cultural participation. Yet it is also clear that owning goods alone is not a really significant sort of participation.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
This is likely one reason we see increased rates of anxiety among people with alexithymia. Because they cannot label their emotions, they aren’t as easily able to recruit their prefrontal cortex to help out and self-soothe when their fear system gets activated! So for people who struggle with emotional regulation or alexithymia, emotional labeling
... See moreInsights of a Neurodivergent Clinician • Emotional Identification: 5 Proven Activities for Better Emotional Literacy
most humans don’t really realize how interdependent we are to other organisms. Bacteria, fungi, viruses, bugs—there is still this binary thinking of these organisms as good or bad, as clean or dirty, which really obscures the reality.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
At a time when many consumers haven’t fully returned to real-life shopping, hyperphysical retail serves as a draw for younger consumers. Some 56 per cent of global Gen Z shoppers head to physical stores for a fun experience, according to a 2018 survey by IBM and the National Retail Federation, which interviewed 15,600 global consumers between the... See more
Vogue Business • From Jacquemus to Balenciaga: Luxury fashion brands go hyperphysical
the shared ability, cultivated from an early age, to explore the possible future is a vital muscle for any democracy—and one that needs to be exercised early and often.