Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
many of us accept the violence, limitations, and boundaries imposed by the system as though they are natural laws—inalterable, inevitable, and final—and view everyday people as an existential threat to control, contain, and manage.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
When living “under capitalism” becomes a catch-all explanation for what you can’t manage — whether that’s getting on the metaphorical treadmill or stepping off it — it assumes the nature of a complaint to an adjudicating authority.
Petersen writes • Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
we've gotten good at giving people what they want in a way that prevents them from wanting anything worth having.
Thin Desires Are Eating YourLife
Maybe, at hellish moments in human history, emotional illegibility starts making more intuitive sense.
Jayson Greene • The Rise of Dissociation Music
This is a different kind of aspiration than the one found in closet tours of young influencers and celebrities. Many of those figures seem focused on stockpiling luxury brands and reacting to trends. Part of why Rockmore and Woodall feel so reassuring is that, like all cool older people, they seem comfortably past all that, as though they’ve... See more
New York Times • The Rise of the Over-50 Fashion Mentors (Published 2022)
The way of the tourist is to consume; the way of the pilgrim is to be consumed. To the tourist the journey is a means. The pilgrim understands that it is both a means and an end in itself. The tourist and the pilgrim experience time differently. For the former, time is the foe that gives consumption its urgency. For the latter, time is a gift in... See more
The Tourist and the Pilgrim
We sometimes call it intuition, but it’s really the sum of inherited and lived experience telling you what matters right now.