Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to one another. As design teacher and researcher Anne Galloway says:
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
Nicole Fenton • Words as Material
“Sometimes life feels a certain way that we call “absurd”: nothing matters, all efforts are for naught, everything seems random and perverse, positive intention is perpetually thwarted. This stance communicates darkness and edginess, which can feel like wisdom. But we don’t live as if life is absurd; we live as if it has meaning and makes sense. We
... See moreIt would be easy, in fact, to dismiss everyone who acts against the collective good as “selfish” or “bad.” But would such characterizations help us alter the terrain? As organizers, we must always pose the question, “Why is this happening?”
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way...: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly.”
286 / Travelling at the speed of the soul
time became codified and commodified
New York Times • Time Has Been Codified and Commodified. Jenny Odell Wants to Set It Free
In this and other recent programming, Netflix is pioneering a genre that I’ve come to think of as ambient television. It’s “as ignorable as it is interesting,” as the musician Brian Eno wrote, when he coined the term “ambient music” in the liner notes to his 1978 album “Ambient 1: Music for Airports,” a wash of slow melodic synth compositions.
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
It’s not that revolutionary dreams aren’t out there. But contemporary revolution- aries rarely think they can bring them into being by some modern-day equivalent of storming the Bastille.
David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
there are other examples of Pride beyond work—particularly companies that allow users to showcase achievements or make a “flex” in their profile. Discord offers Badges that denote that you’re a paying subscriber to Nitro, or that you’ve been a member of a community for a certain period of time.
Rex Woodbury • The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
Realistically, though, I won’t quit Twitter until it shuts down completely. It’s habit. It’s sense memory. It’s compulsion