Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“The glitch is a wonderful experience of an interruption that shifts an object away from its ordinary form and discourse… But once I named it, the momentum—the glitch—is no more…” For Menkman, the glitch cannot be described or it ceases to be what it claims; it is a lack, a break in the pattern of meaning that forces its own opening.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
Perhaps more than any other age group, Gen Z suddenly felt their fate was not their own. Manifesting became a way to take back control.
Stuart McGurk • Making dreams come true: inside the new age world of manifesting
Few forms of curiosity are more powerful than conversation. An exchange of ideas is how we explore new possibilities. Conversations, when they are at their best, are unscripted vehicles for discovery. At scale, they create the symphony of discourse.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Brands that offer memberships see them as something that allows the brands to offer better value to customers, while also hopefully locking them in to make future purchases.
Thingtesting • Why more direct-to-consumer brands are exploring membership models
Popular culture has always been a mix of the brilliant and the banal, and nothing I’ve shown you suggests that the ratio has changed.
Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
Here’s how computer logic shapes our habits of the mind:... See more
- Digitization (binary code) = Intransigence: Things lose nuance. They’re either black or white, 0 or 1, on or off, no or yes.
- Algorithmic (input/output model) = Impertinence: Like axioms, computer programs return only what’s already known. This makes us close-minded and insensitive to new
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #109
“a token of adventure”
Amelia Tait • Tourist trappings: why we all love a tacky souvenir fridge magnet
Auth is a state of mind where you cannot be influenced. U can only vibe and approach the world with an auth state of mind. No brands represent u. Music is not cultural currency.
aestheticizing authenticity would allow the popular, the generic, and the standardized to become authentic.
You already know what the language of authenticity sounds like:... See more
aestheticizing authenticity would allow the popular, the generic, and the standardized to become authentic.
You already know what the language of authenticity sounds like:... See more