Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Today’s Goopified self-love messaging has been a core pillar of the capitalist “girlboss” mindset that lingers on, despite that era being declared over. The remains have left romance in the dust to leave more room for productivity and monetized self-development
i-D • Unpacking our generational fear of codependency
People are “libbing out” across the country, and it’s all because of this week’s overwhelmingly pro-Democrat election results.
The liberal side of the internet is celebrating wins for states like Virginia, California, and New Jersey, with a majority of the excitement being about New York City’s newly-elected mayor,... See more
instagram.com𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴, 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭. 𝘈𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯
... See moreTFSX • The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
convivial spaces like Niche Niche may be more sought after than ever coming out of the depths of the pandemic.
Emma Orlow • New Yorkers Are Turning to Dinner Party-Style Restaurants to Make Friends (and Find Dates)
Brands that build robust Brand Universes are first movers and always have one foot in the now, the other into the future. They welcome both horizontal and vertical expansion and think big. They’ve built the foundations of their brand so strong, know themselves so well, that venturing into uncharted territory isn’t perceived as a risk, but serves as... See more
Christopher Morency • What Even Is a Brand Universe?
ultimately how this is going to evolve in a lot of ways for brands is that this is almost going to seem for a lot of them like the next generation of social media.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
Here ideas, aesthetics, and movements can finally fester, illegible to the dashboard. Camouflage is encrypted, niche, and resistant to capture. Invisible to brands, metrics and algorithmic capture…Camo is strategic opacity, obfuscation and resistance : culture that refuses to be easily readable, trackable, or sellable.
ANU • Who Killed Cool? And What Do We Chase Now...
The makeover of disease with metaphoric cosmetics is not new. In her book “Illness as Metaphor,” writer and critic Susan Sontag criticized “sentimental fantasies” concocted about disease — the awful disease of tuberculosis being her historical example of “aestheticization” and “glamorization.” The European literati once portrayed tuberculosis as
... See morePeter Swenson • I Have Long Covid. Don’t Call My Chronic Disease a ‘Journey’
chronic and words matter