Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
in an era of media overabundance people are searching for a way to distill the overabundance, and it tends to be through voices that they trust. So yeah, there's filtering, but that can also happen through systems. I don't think it's any one group of people, whether that's critics or people just relying on their networks or just on their own... See more
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
The polymath is no longer an exception — they’re the answer to a fragmented world.
instagram.comas someone who studies culture for a living, I can feel the violence of so easily dismissing people and places. The way it denies their humanity and creates false binaries. I know there is a lot of really important stuff to be vigilant against right now, but the best activists and leaders and researchers I know see issues as good and bad, but
... See moreJasmine Bina • Five Ideas for Rethinking the World
a key takeaway was that many Zoomers believe that officials in power, regardless of party, simply do not represent the interests of young people today. They said they wanted politicians to prioritize tangible economic and social outcomes rather than culture war fights, to avoid incrementalism, and to prove that their votes actually count in a... See more
Peter Hamby • Out with The Olds!
Spotify optimised for engagement and brand love without considering how their model would teach an entire generation that intimate behavioural tracking should feel like birthday presents. They didn't just create marketing content - they normalised surveillance capitalism as self-care.
zoe scaman • The Work
Our existences online are by nature incomplete and intended for consumption. Is it possible to bring your whole self to a social-media platform? Is it possible to get the connection and conversation we crave without the doomscroll?
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
IT’S FUN
Most crucially, BRAT offers a transportive form of musical and visual escapism and fun that encourages the audience to shake it off and get involved. It isn’t too serious, which, given everything going on out there, might be exactly what's most needed.
Grace Gordon • How to Build Brand Energy
”Western Melancholy“ / How to Imagine Different Futures in the ”Real World“? | interakcije
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(She had a) deep conviction that wonder had to be at the foundation of any relationship with nature.