Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
While most have heard of the World's Fairs, few know how important they were in shaping our culture. Drawing more than 60 million guests in the 1960s alone, these 6-month long mega-events gave us a place to celebrate our achievements and experience the future up close and in person. They promoted a collective vision for a better world — reminding... See more
cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair
When escapism was pursued collectively, rather than individually, it forged important social bonds. In Bulgaria, historian Maria Todorova has argued that post-Communist nostalgia emerges from this “feeling of loss for a specific form of sociability,” which frayed with the development of free markets. In Romania too, political scientist Mihaela
... See moreKristen Ghodsee • How to Do Escapism in the Trump Era
One word does not capture the thing. One language does not hold all things. More words and different words mean more and different perspectives, which is an immediate widening of our world.
poetrynw.org • Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility
“We used to think that our jobs were these things that should give us fulfillment professionally and completely,” Chapman says. “That’s very much the monogamy model.” For members of Gen Z like Chapman, that model’s grown outdated, particularly in the flexible world of online work and within the fluid organizational structure of decentralized... See more
Jessica Klein • Chase Chapman on DAOs and Professional Polyamory
This is less a statement about what is than a proposed framing or lens through which we view and relate to the world and everything in our experience.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
LLMs introduce a temporality that is genuinely new: one that forces us to invent new cultural modes of production. How do we write, create, and remember in an environment where our tools are discontinuous archives, replaced every few years? How do we treat cultural memory when it arrives in frozen epochs, each already obsolete the moment it
... See moreSachin • Meme Time vs Archival Time - By Sachin - Summer Lightning
Our cultural temporality becomes almost like a sixth sense. The aim of my approach is to step away from the current system of clocks. In this context, philosopher Byung-Chul has has suggested relearning the art of lingering, and sociologist Helga Nowotny argues for a rediscovery of the vicissitudes of live. Taking these two approaches into account,... See more
Nogueira de Menezes • #016 Unlearning time
The citizen, stripped of initiative, becomes an operator of forms — a node in a bureaucratic exoskeleton that stretches from classroom to capital market.
Chor Pharn • Human Surplus and Its Leftovers - By Chor Pharn
While bars will likely remain easier places to meet someone new, the pandemic seems to have proved that diners are craving alternatives for a variety of reasons. Restaurants are becoming spaces that are more than just about feeding hungry diners. Some have transformed into spaces where people can potentially meet someone new and feel the rush of... See more