Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
“We don’t want a world where fashion does not exist at all. We want a world where fashion is not overconsumption but freedom of expression”, Tsagkari says. “Imagining this new idea of fashion as something creative but also simple and accessible to everyone can be a great challenge.”
good on you • Degrowth: The Future Fashion Could Choose
To each their own — but not someone else’s. As one person wrote, “nobody who hasn’t been through it gets to call it a journey.”
Peter Swenson • I Have Long Covid. Don’t Call My Chronic Disease a ‘Journey’
“Optimistic but dissatisfied is the road to progress.”
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To build resilient decentralized networks, let us create “Mother nodes”—sites in the network bearing a responsibility of care. We’ve built institutions like these before: consider public libraries, which serve both as bearers of cultural memory and as generous sources of nutrients for our minds and communities.
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
By better understanding these imaginaries, we empower ourselves to shape them according to our personal and collective preferences. Instead of letting the visions of laboratories and tech companies determine the future of AI, we can actively participate in building imaginaries that will guide its development.
encommun.io • Introduction : Les Imaginaires De L’intelligence Artificielle / Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence
What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called “the
... See moreDavid Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
A collapsing complex system can only be met with a complex, emergent hive-mind response. It’s somewhat good to know that centralised leadership is not appropriate, no? What we need, instead, is for everyone to just…get radicalised…and show up… chaotically…all at once…caring the bejesus out of the situation…and normalising resistance.