Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Magical Realism, rather than being multicultural, is something closer to otherculturalism, culture of the other, with culture taking the place of magic. Culture is different; magic is different. At a distance, they are marvelous. Up close, things get messy: what, exactly, are we eating tonight?
“[movements are] not only end-product consumers of narrative; they are essential creators and drivers of narrative change”
GDP sees Wikipedia as possibly having a negative value. If there wasn’t Wikipedia people would still buy encyclopedias. And all those volunteer Wikipedia editors could do something really valuable with their time, like work for money.
globalisation ‘has stripped us of imagination because it’s all about replication, it’s all about spreading your brand around the world. In order to do that, you have to reach the common denominator, you have to routinise, make things the same. It’s the opposite of imagination’.19 Local economies, she told me, are by nature more imaginative as they
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