Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
There’s a history to capitalism colonizing time and fixing it to its own metronome.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
Before imperialists descended on the United States, there were no clock
s. No second hands tick tick ticking our lives away. These are constructions that whiteness created to ensure our lives were ruled by the arbitrary.
mary retta • close but not quite
What makes us messy also makes us magical. Social experiments are every bit as important as scientific ones, even if they make for a bumpy ride.
Packy McCormick • Social vs. Science Experiments
What I've come to understand is that “negative” states aren't the enemy. As awful as they feel, they're not something to be eliminated or optimized away. They're signals. Navigation points. When I'm in a heightened state of anxiety, it's not a character defect — it's a compass. And if anxiety can be a compass, maybe it’s time to completely reframe
... See moreSara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
“I want to think about time in a shared way,” Odell said. “What becomes possible collectively when you remove the grid, and stop thinking about it as little bits of time currency in each individual person’s time bank, and that all you can do is hoard it.”
New York Times • Time Has Been Codified and Commodified. Jenny Odell Wants to Set It Free
what Yancey Strickler calls Dark Forests . According to him these are “spaces where depressurized conversation is possible because of their non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified environments”.
Portable Multiplayer Miniverses • Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses
Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Cultural products and consumer habits alike increasingly conform to the structures of digital spaces.
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
before the advent of electronic communication, the regulation of information was partly a function of our being bodies in place. Immediacy was structured by place rather than time.