Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
People have been inspired to create new spaces, rituals and infrastructure amongst ruins for millennia, artists in particular. From London to Berlin to Rome to Manila, many cities have been continually built anew atop the wreckage of their pasts, with creative groups often leading the way.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
It’s difficult not to dream when you send work into the world, but try not to dream quantitatively. We’re not in it for the numbers.
Elizabeth McCracken • A Long Game
The possibilities of what we might now think, and know, and become are not necessarily novel in the sense of never having been witnessed before. Many artists work in and with historical tropes and beckon, through them, beyond the present horizon. It is that bidirectionality that allows them to crack open the network of thought.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
the data is going to be quantitative aggregations of qualitative pieces of information. People talking — and then the distillation of people talking.
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
Intangibles are also elements of a system. In a university, school pride and academic prowess are two intangibles that can be very important elements of the system.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems
Through contact with the mirror world, we become something new. Your visual imagination may increase from practice with text-to-image models. Your writing style will change as you develop an intuition for surprise and repetition.
Max Anton Brewer • The Mirror of Language
What TikTok teens, white collar workers marooned in home offices, and the gatekept super-rich all have in common is the kind of physical isolation, if not the sense of doom, that makes a person desperate just to feel something.
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
high-effort coping.”