Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Capitalism is not simply a system of market exchange - it is a system that measures and reduces the value of Life including human labour, living ecosystems, relationships and life-force.
Stephen Reid • Post Capitalism and the Five Elements Mandala
When rules multiply faster than reasons, people stop believing in the law itself.
Chor Pharn • Human Surplus and Its Leftovers - By Chor Pharn
What offends me as a game designer, however, is how so much gamification made by corporations simply isn’t fun. Instead, it’s the thinnest, most thoughtless layering of aesthetics and mechanics from game design onto an unappealing activity.
Adrian Hon • How Did We Get So Obsessed with Streaks?
We want nothing less than entire communities aping into a redefinition of public concern. The opportunity in front of us is bigger than any one protocol. In today's world, capital is not scarce; ambitious visions for the public's benefit are.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
In designing experiences, the cornerstone with which we start is the “who.” Who is this for? Who are they? What do they need? Where are they coming from? Where do we hope to take them? What are they nervous about? How might we care for them? How might we be generous with them, and help them be generous with others?
But, for the most part, we think... See more
But, for the most part, we think... See more
We are not the only "who"
We should sometimes be grateful for the solitude of night, of a winter. They save us from displaying our worst selves to the waking world.
Katherine May • Wintering
Yet the perceived suspension of quarantine — like the horror vacui of the sea or the terra nullius of the wilderness — tends to obfuscate all the vectors converging at our homes and in our neighborhoods
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
As some North American urbanites engaged in what Indigenous scholar Kelsey Leonard has called “entitled escapism” — fleeing cramped apartments for more spacious country homes, trading compaction and contagion for “bountiful space” and “fertile suspension” — some sovereign Indigenous nations refused to allow these settler-migrant populations to pass... See more
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
We take part in rugged cooperation every day. And businesses can be run with rugged cooperation, too.