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
Our enchantment with the world can coexist with our DIS-enchantment with violent systems and ideologies. Our grief and love for this world and one another can actually disrupt spells that keep us complicit and passive and disempowered. When we become disenchanted with business as usual, we make room for the world and other ways of being in it that... See more
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
Nearly half of Zoomers talk about politics and current events with their close friends at least once a week. But among voting-age Americans under 25, only 30 percent said they would “definitely” be voting in the November elections, compared with 60 percent of Americans 26 or older.
Peter Hamby • Out with The Olds!
it’s not enough to increase imagination in our society. We need to rewild our imaginations. We’re all born with natural capacities to imagine. Children have a boundless imagination but as we grow up our imagination is colonised, especially by schools, where there’s just one right answer and we learn cookie cutter models of how to think.
Medium • Rewilding the Imagination
“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 more“leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.
donellameadows.org • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
“The evil scientists from my childhood have become big tech bros.”
Jasmine Bina • Five Ideas for Rethinking the World
As builders of a new digital society, we must be equipped with an even more inclusive and visionary concept of what "public" and "good" can mean.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Traditional infrastructure derived legitimacy from tangibility and scale : bridges that could be seen, power stations that symbolized modernity. Living infrastructure, by contrast, derives legitimacy from transparency and responsiveness : the ability of systems to sense, disclose, and respond to public needs in real time. This redefines
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