Keely Adler

@keelyadler

brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.

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Meanwhile, a fixation on honesty continues to pervade popular arts discourse, music included. Indie scenesters have historically been the ones to agitate most over authenticity, but in the golden age of confessional pop music, the aesthetic concern with honesty isn’t limited to subculture anymore. Direct access to artists’ personal lives seems more

Dirt • Dirt: The Decay of Lying...

parasocial relationships and Authenticity

Worldbuilding satisfies the desire to “be a real maker,” J.R.R. Tolkien remarked in his 1947 essay “On Fairy Stories.” The creator should “hope that he is drawing on reality,” for the qualities of the world should aim to capture some truth, some essence of reality.

Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 1

The “right to leave” is the hallmark of the post-platform era.

Eileen Isagon Skyers • Dirt: Are we post-platform?

Almost anything that we are able to direct sustained attention at will begin to loop on itself and bloom.

To take a dark example, if you focus on your anxiety, the anxiety can begin to loop until you hyperventilate and get tunnel vision and become filled with nightmarish thoughts and feelings—a panic attack.

And you do the same thing with joy. If you... See more

Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom

desire paths

Now, standing in the future, the present me would never have imagined how much the world would transform in just a few short decades. How much more change might we see in the decades to come? Even the shifts we saw coming—like rising temperatures from climate change—only truly hit when we felt the unbearable heat... See more

instagram.com

coping with collapse and how we survive _this_

It’s absolutely true that the tone and content of the videos people consume on TikTok or Instagram affect their understanding of the world around them--but so too do their non-phone experiences, their relationships, their jobs, their mental states, their social worlds, their spending habits, etc. Why do doomers and reactionaries so thoroughly

Max Read • The TikTok Electorate

don't blame me

Designers, wrote Brentin Mock, who covers social justice and equity for City Lab, ‘have been wowed by [the nation of] Wakanda’s mechanical marvels of hyperloop rapid transit, maglev trains, dragonfly-shaped spaceships, hoverbikes, skyscrapers orchestrated from chords of stone, wood, and metal, and other innovative spectacles’. In conjuring this... See more

Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda