Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
in a cooperative, you are one plant contributing to the larger garden. Has it been hard to learn to operate this way yourself, and then teach other people how to operate this way? What has it been like to create these sorts of non-hierarchical spaces within a country that functions primarily through capitalist and patriarchal structures?
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonate with, and if we’re lucky, some part of the world might too.
Limits cannot hold when it comes to pleasure. What is too much one day is not enough on another. What is too much for one person is just enough for another. And so on. This trouble with pleasure can be lived with. What seemingly can’t is the feeling that the basic laws that shore up our society are only just functioning; every day we face new
... See moreNew York Times • I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
When everything is in flux, we need people who can move across worlds. In times of upheaval, grief, anxiety and rising discomfort, polymaths—those who wear many hats, blend skills, and cross disciplines—are essential.They thrive in the spaces between, finding connections others might miss.When things shift beneath us, it’s these transitional... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Fuller decries specialization as the enemy of synergy and proposes a reframing of culture that could “get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.” At its epicenter he places the value of wide curiosity and generalist knowledge.
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
Language doesn’t just describe neutrally. Language creates reality. It is a world-building force
Robin Beers • What Story Is Your Organization Becoming?
(3) Historically and ontologically, modernity is characterized by the separation between humans and nature (anthropocentrism), mind and body (rationalism and mechanicism), observer and observed (representationalism), us and them (colonialism, supremacy ideologies), and so forth. This dualist ontology was fundamental for the development of
... See moreArturo Escobar • Welcome to Possibility Studies
What I saw from my calm perch: The “masses” are catching on.
Did you see the influx of anti-system memes over the festive period? Did you notice a vibe shift? Did you detect a different flavour of comment and feedback from people in your orbit?
In mine, the response was overwhelmingly this, or a version thereof: **“** WTAF?!”
Things are not at all
... See moreSarah Wilson • We're Now in a Post-Wtaf Era
Only untrained minds are boring. Or: Nothing in the world is bereft of delight. Looking closely helps unlock this delight, this wonder, this doofy curiosity.