Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
... See moreDuring harrowing times some people become overwhelmed and even lose hope. It’s not a one-way progress. Almost everyone has their moments. But there’s a particular kind of militant doomerism afoot at the moment. Any discussions of next steps in the battle against Trumpism or the preservation of civic democracy, any suggestions or strategies, are met
Charlie Sykes • This Is Not the Moment to Give Up
We are a collective body of many parts, both inside and out. By seeing the self not as an individual hero, but as one among many — human and non-human — a new kind of tentacular, multi-kind, multi-species politics of care might emerge, as Isabelle Stengers and Philippe Pignarre would argue.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
SKIn both literal fermentation and metaphorical fermentation the fermentation is breaking down previous forms into new forms. We don’t know yet what the outcome of this pandemic is going to be on us. I mean, as I was finishing my manuscript, it was clear that society was making this sort of abrupt shift in a way that I don’t know that I had ever... See more
Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor
hospicing, which recognizes the eventual inevitable end of modernity’s fundamentally unethical and unsustainable institutions, but sees the necessity of enabling a “good” death through which important lessons are processed.
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
Americans have tripled the time spent in meetings since 2020, data from Microsoft’s suite of business software show—leaving less time for the casual interactions that social scientists say foster happiness at work.
workfutures • What Is New
Of the students interviewed, only about two in five (39 percent) say that their K-12 education prepared them to succeed in their work or life. And only 37 percent said the same about becoming “an active and engaged citizen.” Only a third said their education prepared them to live “a balanced and happy life.” And a third of Zoomers do not believe... See more
Peter Hamby • Out with The Olds!
It seems like there’s a reclaiming of ancestral roots that is also part of this fervor in fermentation. But it also seems like those ancestral roots that they’re trying to reconnect to are not going to take shape in the same way. They’re not going to appear like they did for their grandparents or their great-grandparents or back in the old country... See more
Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor
“During the Cold War, pop culture was an immensely powerful force on America’s side, and the U.S.S.R. had no answer,” the author Stephen Marche writes for @nytopinion. But now, Stephen argues, America has lost its cool. “Alongside the administration’s hard power losses — the destruction of the world’s most enviable alliance network and the... See more
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