Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Hannah Arendt’s discussion of common sense and a common world. “Only the experience of sharing a common human world with others who look at it from different perspectives,” she wrote in The Human Condition, “can enable us to see reality in the round and to develop a shared common sense.”
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
Starting my new sketchbook with mantras and phrases I want to guide my exploration. These two stood out to me and had to get them down in ink.
instagram.comI am sitting fully with the fact things are the actual fuck going to be ugly and shocking. The train has left the station. But I am going to be here, standing sturdy, dearly holding onto my morals and my humanity. I am going to choose to live as I feel we should be living. I am going to be defiant.
Sarah Wilson • We're Now in a Post-Wtaf Era
an ostensible pause that instead merely extends, and in many ways exacerbates, the injustices of our society and the inadequacies of our ways of conceptualizing and modeling city life.
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
We are not separate entities. We are parts of larger, often invisible constellations. We do not exist in a vacuum - we take shape through the relationships we inhabit. Where we place ourselves and how we relate determines who we become, in that moment.
Anna Branten • We Were Never Meant to Be Complete
Sending is the art of evocation, of using names to command beings from our world or others. The magician implants an entity into the subconscious and empowers it with attention. They then direct it to some task. Its desire is only to complete the task, which is also its dissolution.
Max Anton Brewer • The Mirror of Language
In addition, the study found that the whole group synchronises its brain states when engaged in communication. Their neurons spiked and oscillated in similar ways, bringing their brains quite literally onto the same ‘wavelength’. And if the bats were ‘friendly’, having spent significant time together, their brains synchronised even more strongly –... See more
Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
Care is what creates the possibility of purposeful action. Care is what issues forth in meaningful knowledge of the world and others. Care is ultimately what transforms the quality of our involvement and engagement with the world so that we pass from “getting things done” to living.
L. M. Sacasas • Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It
To address a food crisis is to address the relational, recursive density the food is contingent upon. It is to nourish the coming together of intergenerational farming, cooking, healing, holidays, ceremonies, culture, seasons and markets — not to package nutrition bars.
Words are not the things we are speaking about.
Nora Bateson, Combining
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