Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
imagination is an extremely powerful force for change and humanity can build bridges and empower us to create worlds that are more in line with our values. Imagining allows us not just to see a different future but to explore the impacts of it happening
Medium • Rewilding the Imagination
Asked to rank their top issues, the Gen Z respondents named four topics that almost never appear in campaign ads or stump speeches. Preventing school shootings was first, followed by protecting access to clean water and fresh air, reducing gun violence and mass shootings, and guaranteeing quality education for every child.
Peter Hamby • Out with The Olds!
“If you want to survive in this organization, you shouldn’t use the words you use. Words like ‘more-than-human’ or ‘otherwise’...” Someone told me this a while ago and probably many of you often come across comments like that. Re-reading my fav book, I found this quote:“The way we talk about this life and living, the language we use, builds a kind... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Disabled people are consistently written out of the future, philosopher Kafer (2013) notes, and perceived as having no future. To craft futures in which both realist and nonrealist disabilities are integral to liberatory worlds, then, is to reach for adjacent possibilities otherwise ignored and dismissed. It is to relocate possibility within the
... See morePerry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
A Future In Sync and
Nor is burnout solely an American phenomenon. From the “lying flat” movement in China to outcries against deaths from overwork in Japan and South Korea, there is a growing sense of indignation in wealthy countries about inhumane work ideals that turn prosperity into a curse.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
Many values of the early years of the internet, including openness, creativity, and connection, are deeply appealing now.
New_ Public • 💾 Why we’re nostalgic for the early web
Despite the fact that humans are wired for collaboration, single-player is our default mode of operation. Single-player game mechanics are baked into our infrastructures and platforms; in Western cultures, they’re baked right into society itself — school, social life, you name it. Everything has been designed with the mechanistic worldview in mind;... See more