Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
What beliefs keep the system in place? And what new narratives could change or replace the system?
Or, as illustrated by one of my all-time favorite quotes:
*“The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.”
*Erwin Schödinger
Thomas Klaffke • From Self-Reform to Worldview-Reform
Polyvore 3.0 is all about luxury as membership, taste signaling and belonging to taste communities.
Ana Andjelic • Luxury x Culture
If worries about authenticity are age-old, so is snobbery. In 1877, domestic expert Mrs Florence Caddy published Household Organisation, in which she suggested that travellers buy household objects and display them artfully – a quaint wooden pail from Antwerp, perhaps. Lethbridge notes that, “As in all things, the choice of souvenir was a marker of... See more
Amelia Tait • Tourist trappings: why we all love a tacky souvenir fridge magnet
It is just that easy to open—or to limit—possibility. The approach, the tone, the details matter.
The approach is seeking—not to lock down a particular direct corrective, although those are necessary at times—but instead to include the nth-order—the ecological habit of change that changes change and keeps changing. There is a realm of "possible"
... See moreslow growth gives you time to build strong relationships with members, which is essential for developing a close-knit community.
Steph Alinsug • A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 commu…
In the same frame, Latour proposes a move from ‘production’ towards more interrogative processes of questioning the ways in which things are brought to the world: existence, survival, reproducing, giving birth and losing territory. A process of engendering.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Today, World's Fairs have been rebranded as "International Expositions" that occur every 5 years, and are a hollow shell of their former glory. They no longer showcase the promise of the future or celebrate achievement. Instead, they serve as national branding exercises, infrastructure development projects masquerading as innovation, architecture... See more
cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair
“When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while the immeasurable, the qualitative, and the things we don’t think to measure drain away. Bedazzled by quantitative abundance, we might not be able to see what is lost, but we can definitely feel its absence.”