Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Narratives of inevitability have the effect of foreclosing thought and deliberation. If outcomes are inevitable, then there’s nothing to do but assimilate to this pre-determined future, to go along for the ride prepared for us whatever the consequences. As Lauren Collee has recently put it, “Techno-determinist futures … are used to habituate us to... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Resistance Is Futile: The Myth of Tech Inevitability
Andy Warhol on consumerism:
“Buying is much more American than thinking.”
Most people think conflict arises when A thinks X and B thinks Y. In reality, conflicts have higher chances to arise not when people don’t share the same ideas, but when don’t share the same context and don’t make judgments using the same lenses.
Leonardo Federico • Context over control: the future of remote work
Mutual aid, of which defense committees are good examples, has the power to change our social relationships, to galvanize us into groups and communities that confront specific crises—and then move on to fight much broader battles. We saw that kind of reconfiguration happen around Marissa’s case, as people moved from concern to collective action,
... See moreKelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
people who leave organized religion quickly become eager to replace the void with another system of meaning—a dimension most atheist groups have failed to consider.
Jasmine Bina • A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures
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Across Finland, dozens of daycare centers have been given money to rewild yards and increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity that lives in nature.
It is part of a growing body of research linking two layers of biodiversity: the outer later that includes plants and animals, and the inner layer that... See more
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