Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
as ContraPoints’ Natalie Wynn once quipped, “being silent is a big part of being silenced,” and at this point, there seems to be more talk of a cultural stigma around male vulnerability than there is stigma. Still, as long as there’s discourse there will be bad actors seeking to hijack it—unless we can offer a better alternative.
Dirt • Dirt: Man of the Year
After 18 months of learning and filtering with that lens, there were three changes made possible by blockchains that I couldn’t unsee:
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
if you give a user community powerful enough creator tools, what they create in these worlds will be far more interesting than anything a major company can officially create.
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
I’m doubling down on practices to ensure I keep seeing things calmly and clearly. I am back to meditating. I am back to decaf.
I’m softening my eyes.
Sarah Wilson • We're Now in a Post-Wtaf Era
“While traditional materialism is rooted in the present, Speculative Materialism – from the Latin ‘speculat’ meaning “observed from a vantage point” – looks to the horizon. Rather than designing materials to last for time immemorial, what about redesigning materials to degrade and be regenerated cyclically over time? […]
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #98
the changing texture of material culture in digital society and the attendant consequences for how we experience the continuity of the self.
enduring relationships anchor our identity or our sense of self.
The self is not exactly fixed. It undoubtedly evolves over time, it is multi-faceted, and, critically, it escapes our full comprehension. All of... See more
enduring relationships anchor our identity or our sense of self.
The self is not exactly fixed. It undoubtedly evolves over time, it is multi-faceted, and, critically, it escapes our full comprehension. All of... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
We don’t just report research, we bring to life visions of better worlds in better futures to motivate the many and activate change. Because when you think of better futures like memes (by which we mean, the academic, Richard Dawkins, OG definition of memes), you can start to see the potential in their propagation. You open up, in Kiana’s words... See more