Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Our emotional experience of a place is never the true, actual reality, but that doesn’t mean those feelings don’t matter.
I’m not out here to shame anybody who is more fatalistic, who feels the call to ring alarm bells, to shout the direness of this moment from the rooftops. That’s an important part of social change. Alarm bells don’t ring... See more
I’m not out here to shame anybody who is more fatalistic, who feels the call to ring alarm bells, to shout the direness of this moment from the rooftops. That’s an important part of social change. Alarm bells don’t ring... See more
garrett bucks • The greatest saints in the world
We realised that the tools we have created to master the world are re-mastering us. But more importantly, it became evident, that the desire for mapping, tweaking and ultimately, controlling, deeply complex systems is hubristic. As Tega Brain writes in her exceptional essay “we must acknowledge how deeply entrenched we are within a computational... See more
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Imagination and
The real issue isn’t whether AI can make us richer, but what kind of richness we’re aiming for in the first place.
Patrick Tanguay (Sentiers) • 📡 No.392 — A Country of Geniuses ⊗ Collapse: A Framework
We call nature ‘the wilderness’ and animals within it ‘wild animals’ while we are ‘civil’ humans. This type of language alone shows our un-symbiotic relationship with nature. We see us, humans, ourselves, as being separate or even superior to nature (the ‘wild’ vs the tame, conscious, civil), a mental model that is at the root of so many powerful... See more
Substack • Seeing Wetiko
Indeed, imagination is alive and well in relation to technology: a future is being built where manufactured goods will mainly be grown rather than made, where wars may be settled in a matter of seconds thanks to AI, or where long-standing hopes for the colonisation of space may start to be realised. Technology has repeatedly expanded the space of
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
One way I’ve learned to break the Demon of Judgment’s curse—at least momentarily—is to actively shift my attention from what I call low frequency concerns to high frequency intentions. It’s normal to desire things like approval, critical success, money, and praise, and there’s nothing wrong with entertaining those material, lower vibration urges in
... See morePam Grossman • Magic Maker
Paradoxically, the deployment of technology can also serve as a reflection of our humanity. Techniques such as interactive infographics, augmented reality journalism, and 3D content storytelling go beyond mere technological progress; they emphasize human effort , setting it apart from the facile and inexpensive mass-produced content that is
... See moreMarie Dollé • Embracing Tangible Media?
Friedrich Nietzsche once said that our happiness consists of the possession of a non-negotiable truth. Today, we no longer have such non-negotiable truths.