Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
There was another element that animated me, which was much more based in the handicraft of writing: I simply loved to write. I loved the musicality of language, and I delighted in creating a tone and rhythm that sparked the reader, even subconsciously, firing them forward in the piece. I loved plucking quotes out of my long interviews that made my
... See moreSusan Orlean • Joyride
“I’m no genius, but I’m smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.” —Thomas Watson, Sr., Founder of IBM
Shane Parrish • What Can We Learn From the Prolific Mr. Asimov?
There is a specific uncanny nausea that comes when you begin to look at every image or paragraph, and wonder, “does this mean anything?” Not is it real. But does it have meaning, does it have intention? Is there an intelligence behind it, trying to communicate something to you, or is it a simulation?
Max Anton Brewer • The Mirror of Language
you can't really make a good mental image of a 4D object, in its full detail, because that's not a thing human brains do. History across both breadth and depth is the same deal. You can never quite grasp it fully. But you can sort of see it if you project it cleverly and squint really hard.
Étienne Fortier-Dubois • History in the Space-Time Continuum
As corporations drape themselves in rainbow colors for Pride month, remember that they only engage in such activism in the West where it's fashionable, and not in the East where it's actually needed, because their activism is motivated not by principles but by PR. https://t.co/jV1VCCRCxZ
Hypernormalization is collective performed holding. Everyone acting like the thing coheres when we can all see it doesn't. The gap between what's visibly broken and what we're supposed to pretend is working.
Just a moment...
It does often seem that, whenever there is a choice between one option that makes capitalism seem the only possible economic system, and another that would actually make capitalism a more viable economic system, neoliberalism means always choosing the former. The combined result is a relentless campaign against the human imagination. Or, to be more
... See moreDavid Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
a place where I can unearth the stories within the landscape as it is still unfolding. It is a place where I can dream of what could be…not only for myself but for the collective, the real world that I’m a part of
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
Stated differently, if you’re a citizen in one, you’re a tourist in another1Paul T. Kidd. But how can we become constant travelers within a border-free, and lingo-legible ‘intellectual Pangea?'