Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Brands and commodities therefore need to be considered and critiqued on the basis of the specific cultural and economic contributions they make to society. People co-create their identities with brands just as they do with religions, communities, and other other systems of meaning. This constructivist view is incompatible with popular forms of... See more
subpixel space • After Authenticity
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
Because they realize that their beliefs might be wrong, intellectually humble people pay more attention to the quality of the evidence on which their beliefs are based.
Greater Good • What Does Intellectual Humility Look Like?
Secularism is an important cornerstone of America and the West more broadly. It’s how we distinguish ourselves from other nations, and how we assert ourselves as modern and others as backwards. This has led us to believe that Western nations are more progressive (in part, because of their ability to diminish the role of religion in politics) while... See more
Religiously Blonde • The Pitfalls of Believing in Separation of Church and State
Enchantment is a practice, and a collective one. We will have to return our attention to the places of beauty and pleasure and joy and magic and empowerment. We will have to do it again and again. This is not a solitary practice. We will have to lean on each other - human and more than.
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
The preoccupation with what it means to assign love value is not a new phenomenon, nor is the conflation of the language of love with the language of business. What is new is the idea that tracking love and love’s expression is important “internally” to the couple over the course of a relationship.
Real Life • Silent Partner
Another universalist claim that has captured both the public and the intellectual imagination is that religion is intrinsically violent. “Religions do not cause violence,” Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, writes, quickly followed by, “nor do they cause peace.”
Religiously Blonde • Is Religion Violent?
How can we build up an infrastructure, both physical and metaphysical, tangible and intangible, to enable the development, the practices and use of collective imagination? We’re particularly interested in how the collective works here — what it means for us to imagine together, how the grouping of intelligence progresses our ability to envisage and
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