Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
ON REBUILDING & METAPHORS
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
The other day some friends and I were reminiscing about an app idea we had years ago that would allow you to “blind cancel” on your friends. That is, flag if you were open to canceling a plan, which your friend would only see if they also flagged it. Basically, it was Tinder for bailing. This was our ultimate dream: an official, guilt-free conduit... See more
Haley Nahman • #95: Are you baby? A litmus test
Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
multispeciesworldbuilding.comA polycrisis is only makeable in an ecological way. It is an ecological consequence of ecological consequences. It can therefore only be unmade by being met (not matched) in new ecologies of connection. The economic crises contribute to political and health crises, exacerbated by technological crises — all of which produced pressures on education
... See moreThe thing is, there will always be more on the to-do list. There will always be people who need you, things to accomplish, deadlines to meet. You will never find the time to get into a hammock for an entire day and truly collapse into the knowledge that you got it all done. The best time to rest is today. You do have time, you do have the tools,... See more
Medium • This Is How You Rest
how do we resist the gravitational pull of the impasse and deflect these invisible forces of power? How do we imagine different worlds within the current political landscape?
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Our measurements are our agreed-upon codes for what matters, but once they are installed into our culture, it can be very hard to know when it’s time to rethink how we measure things in the first place. Our beliefs and feelings have a tendency to move forward before we have the models to describe them and the artifacts of culture – language, norms,... See more
Creating New Units of Culture
This is a type of psychedelia accessed not through the headsets of ‘Virtual Reality’ or screens of ‘Augmented Reality’, but accessed through a Huxleyian like shift in how we ought to see what is already there.