Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
these anchors of the self might be material as well as social. Consider a certain class of object that uniquely mediates our relationship to the past.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
As a strong proponent for the diversification of work (see here with Zine), building a Career Portfolio is not just incredibly fulfilling, but ultimately job-proofing. By building relationships and reputation outside the walls of a single office, fractional work can be a win-win. Employers just have to tap the upside for themselves... more... See more
Victoria Buchanan • Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work
“The present of things past is memory,” he writes; “the present of things present is perception; and the present of things future is expectation.
John Wray • The Lost Time Accidents: A Novel
Today’s emerging technologies have the capacity to launch our societies leap years ahead, but it’s evident—even in these systems’ earliest stages—that trust will be difficult to earn.
Google Tag Manager (noscript) • We must prioritize trust in digital infrastructure
For too long, we've treated strategy like a board game: static pieces on a flat surface, governed by logic and turn-taking.
But the real world isn't orderly. It's dynamic. Interdependent. Shaped by weather, mood, emotion, timing, attention, trust.
zoe scaman • The Work
Revolutions are thus planetary phenomena. But there is more. What they really do is transform basic assumptions about what politics is ultimately about.
David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
Eichhorn uses the potent term “content capital”—a riff on Pierre Bourdieu’s “cultural capital”—to describe the way in which a fluency in posting online can determine the success, or even the existence, of an artist’s work.
“Cultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend... See more
“Cultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend... See more
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
My argument is that to reimagine what’s possible is one of the most complex cultural and political acts one can engage in at present, whether we are in the academy, activism, or policy making. This is because one of the most pernicious effects of today’s dominant political, economic, and belief systems has been to narrow down, if not colonize, the
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