Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Anything can be turned into merch if infused with enough symbolic value and cultural capital.
Ana Andjelic • Everything Is Merch
If you encounter somebody that is different from you, maybe, if you’re good at lingering for a moment or two in wonder at that person, you can postpone the moment of fear or rejection,” she told me. The subtitle to “Vibrant Matter”—“a political ecology of things”—hints at an interpersonal politics: in her view, politics should always include a
... See moreMorgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
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
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
establishing your own personal constraints early on — and codifying those constraints in the tools that you choose to get started with — becomes the earliest seed of originality in what might become an incredibly fruitful hobby or path to skill development.
Andrew Lovett-Baron • Avoiding Kits
Issue #24: It's a chaotic world. We're just living in it (for now)
Lore Oxfordloreoxford.substack.com
communities that subordinate work to higher ends can survive economically while promoting their members’ flourishing.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
Jayaraj is not the only Gen Z member using film as an antidote to digital fatigue. Since finding film, she has watched it rise in popularity within her own friendship circle.
The Guardian • ‘You only have one shot’: how film cameras won over a younger generation
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
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