Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
If we’re to resist the gravity well of banality, extract ourselves from of the containers of the past, escape the stifling grip of pre-packaged thinking, refuse to be complicit in the astro-turfing of culture, and create better, desired futures rather than merely slipstream into default ones, then what we really need is imagination. And the... See more
martin weigel • Fighting The Astro-Turfing Of Culture, The Gravity Well Of Banality, And The Stifling Grip Of Pre-Packaged Thinking — Martin Weigel
These are evolutionary adaptations.
The centre couldn't hold. So strategy moved to the margins - where the real complexity lives.
zoe scaman • The Work
the acceleration of nostalgia. We’re trapped in what might be called a Revival Spiral.
The Face • Our obsession with nostalgia is driving a trend revival spiral
(5) But the Real is much more than this “reality”! The real refers to the endlessly changing stream of life, “the unbroken wholeness,” to use Physicist David Bohm’s wonderful expression, out of which everything comes, including the Planet we all share. As the Manifesto puts it, the real is characterized by radical open-endedness and becoming. In
... See moreArturo Escobar • Welcome to Possibility Studies
When complexity and depth are in harmony, it is easy to learn, hard to master, and leads to creative expression.
Alex Kubodera • What is depth and how do you add it to your game?
in The Diamond Age, Stephenson introduces the idea of phyles. In the The Diamond Age, people live in phyles—cultural groups that have largely replaced nations. Phyles share values and interests, but often not location—they are, after all, digitally-native.
Rex Woodbury • The Internet Killed Mainstream Culture
“Each new generation, indeed every new human being as he inserts himself between an infinite past and an infinite future, must discover and ploddingly pave it anew.”