Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Our relationship to the possible is grounded in action in and on the world. This also means that it is mediated by a variety of material and symbolic tools, including a range of technologies. As such, human culture is both the origin and outcome of our engagement with the possible. Cultural processes are, in this sense, helping us navigate, as
... See moreVlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
This places an onus on domestic work to be more than just a means of replenishing oneself; it also becomes a mode of self-therapy. “Home as feeling” becomes a technology of self-optimization rather than a respite. Where you actually live is no excuse not to make good vibes, for vibes will help you deal with both personal and collective precarity.
Hyejoo Lee • Inside Voice - Real Life
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“To reverse the rise of authoritarian populism, the Democratic Party, like left-of-center parties everywhere, must reconnect with the working class,” writes Dani Rodrik, an economist who teaches at @harvardkennedyschool. “At the heart of that agenda must be a program that spurs not only jobs, but good jobs.” Such good-job policies need to become “a... See more
instagram.comRest is slow. You can’t feel rushed while you’re resting. That doesn’t mean that you can’t rest for an incredibly short period of time; it just means that, if you’re time-limited, you’ll need to have a timer. You cannot be in charge of the time as a resting person.
Medium • This Is How You Rest
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
Like so many technologies that came before, it seems to be here to stay; the question is not how to escape it but how to understand ourselves in its inescapable wake.
In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is... See more
In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is... See more