Keely Adler
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brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Curiosity, we argue, is a capacity to connect—to build knowledge networks. Curiosity builds relationships between pieces of knowledge as much as between the people who want to know them. For this reason, we characterize curiosity as “edgework”—constantly laying down relationships between ideas, experiences, concepts, and objects in the world.
... See morePerry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Obviously ideas have always gained and lost popularity throughout history. But I think it’s fair to say the conditions that disrupt the so-called arc of progress have intensified beyond comprehension. Mass media’s emphasis on images and appearances has shifted the political discourse to a facile imitation of its former self.
Haley Nahman • #100: New idea trending
“TV has never transcended the soap opera or the sitcom, and every ‘great’ TV show is just polishing up one or the other.” This isn’t a particularly controversial point, but it’s one that often gets covered over in prestige papier mache. The Sopranos isn’t a soap, it’s a ten-hour movie. The Wire isn’t a soap, it’s a Dickens novel. There’s got to be... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
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a living language demands what our modern language has trained out of us: vulnerability, presence, time. You can’t streamline connection. It asks us to stay. To listen. To listen intensely, so we can hear the nuance in others too.
Anna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
Society now and in the future depends on imagination Any kind of social organisation depends on imagination; something has to be thought before it can become real. So, imagination is both the glue for any society and the only fuel for change.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
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Let’s consider that formula: community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore. The web3 communities I’m in have powerful ideologies; these are spaces with shared perspectives and rituals that have emerged over a compressed period of time. This manner of collective world-building in and around projects (in the best possible way, I wouldn’t use... See more