Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The negative side effects from this new way of living are too countless to list. We don’t have the patience for anything, let alone the slow unfolding of human emotion. Ask anyone on a dating app how that looks up close, how it plays out over time. Pundits lament that the global populace is enduring a plague of psychobabble that adds up to
... See moreHeather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
By community knowledge, I mean beliefs, truths and cures passed down over time. By solidarity networks, I mean acting with trust, in small self-selecting groups. By folklore, I mean the ritualistic repetition of the first to build the second.
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
Successful Brand Universes are those that when come in contact with, we as consumers instantly react, “Wow, thats SO [insert brand here].”
Christopher Morency • What Even Is a Brand Universe?
By foregrounding hope, imagination, agency and creativity, we can get to fully appreciate what it means to be human in a world that oftentimes resists our needs, expectations, and aspirations.
Vlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
Is it possible that this preemptive attitude toward social movements, the designing of wars and trade summits in such a way that preventing effective opposition is considered more of a priority than the success of the war or summit itself, really reflects a more general principle? What if those currently running the system, most of whom witnessed
... See moreDavid Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
We realised that the tools we have created to master the world are re-mastering us. But more importantly, it became evident, that the desire for mapping, tweaking and ultimately, controlling, deeply complex systems is hubristic. As Tega Brain writes in her exceptional essay “we must acknowledge how deeply entrenched we are within a computational... See more
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
New forms of architecture, infrastructure, and organisation will emerge from this, relying on a rebalanced relationship between participatory cultures and corporate interest, public sector and private sector, and the reinvigorated institutions of trusted government. It emphasises shared resources and civic relationships, yet recognises individual... See more
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
the changing texture of material culture in digital society and the attendant consequences for how we experience the continuity of the self.
enduring relationships anchor our identity or our sense of self.
The self is not exactly fixed. It undoubtedly evolves over time, it is multi-faceted, and, critically, it escapes our full comprehension. All of... See more
enduring relationships anchor our identity or our sense of self.
The self is not exactly fixed. It undoubtedly evolves over time, it is multi-faceted, and, critically, it escapes our full comprehension. All of... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
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.