Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Science is not a neutral force. A scientist’s conclusions are profoundly effect-influenced by the methods that she used, which are influenced by the questions that she thought to ask, which are influenced by her own beliefs and values, which are influenced by her senses, by her culture, by her background.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
While the world focuses on mental health for the day, let's consider that mental health is heavily determined by social context.
This model by Compton and Shim (2019) was one of my first ever illustrations when I started this page 5 (!) Years ago.
What other social determinants would you... See more
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Taken as a straightforward phrase, "speculative communities" is nicely abbreviated description of web3, tying together as it does many of web3's constitutive qualities: its growth as a market for financial speculation, its supposed potential as an architecture of an internet of the future, its appearance as many overlapping, fiercely committed... See more
Max Read • Web3 as a "speculative community"
Once upon a time, when checking and scrolling were not an option, there existed so much interstitial space. The gap between one activity and another was an open field, a transitional territory.
Lia Purpura Published • The Ecology of Attention
Path dependency is alive and well throughout businesses as mediocre, middle-of-the-road thinking doesn’t rock the boat, whether you are in product development or marketing. But, from what we see, this type of behaviour also doesn’t reap any great rewards. This is why Challenger brands question incumbency at every level of their organisation in
... See moreeatbigfish. • The Cost of Mediocrity
I am also thinking of the work of feminist geographers, who have learned how to trace informal networks of exchange and care, how to consider embodied and emotional aspects of urban experience, how to attend to social differences and intersectional identities, and how to recognize the limitations of GIS-based cartography.
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
what happens to a feeling that has no word? It doesn’t disappear, but it becomes invisible. And when it can’t be expressed, it opens a distance between me and everything around me.