Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Epistemology and
Micha Frazer-Carroll: When you tell people in casual conversation that you are writing a book on mental health, the first thing they often want to talk about is diagnosis. I think it occupies a really central position in the cultural imagination right now. Lots of people I speak to seem to be coming to a diagnosis as a means of understanding their
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Cities are not about efficiency, and never have been. The most meaningful urban experiences are generally the most inefficient. But this lack of efficiency is also why they are naturally resilient, if their design patterns follow the purposeful redundancy described above.
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, preventing the awareness of their own agency in their lives.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
intellectually humble leaders who are open to alternative views may motivate others to contribute more ideas to discussions.
Greater Good • What Does Intellectual Humility Look Like?
on humility and
new roles for museums and galleries, suggesting how they could showcase alternative futures just as they tell us about our past.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
They take that justice principle seriously, he says. “This generation has hope about a future that is in balance, and they’re no longer waiting for science or policy or the economy or new technology to tell them what they should do. They want to act.”
Maddy Lauria • Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive
Like so many technologies that came before, it seems to be here to stay; the question is not how to escape it but how to understand ourselves in its inescapable wake.
In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is... See more
In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is... See more
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
Germans talk about the phenomenon of das Verschwinden der Zukunft, the disappearance of the future, and a widening gulf between what people hope for and what they think is likely to happen.