Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
What Gen Z is doing in metaverse spaces is what the early Second Life users [were] doing, but on a far, far more massive scale. They don’t consider re-creating the real-life tropes to be as meaningful as adults and brands do.
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
the idea that creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge, skill and insight that we gather over the course of our lives and recombining them into incredible new creations.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
After the pandemic, what is most in need of recovery is culture. Cultural events such as theater, dance and even football have a ritual character. The only way in which we can revitalize community is through ritual forms. Today, culture is held together solely by instrumental and economic relations. But that does not found communities — it isolates... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
It may be the case that many personal infirmities can only be fully repaired in a repaired world, but this does not obviate the need to pull ourselves together as best we can in this broken one. Any serious attempt to topple capitalism would require more discipline, more courage, more endurance, more capability, not less.
Petersen writes • Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
The future no longer feels shared, and we have few new stories about what we’re moving toward. We know far more about what we shouldn’t do than about what we must.
Anna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
There isn’t only one kind of person that can imagine what a better world could look like, whether it’s fictional or not
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
As modernity took shape, the function of language shifted. We began to divide.