Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
How do we learn to harness the power and wisdom of pleasure, rather than trying to erase the body, the erotic, the connective tissue from society?
How would we organize and move our communities if we shifted to focus on what we long for and love rather than what we are negatively reacting to?
brown, adrienne maree; Rodriguez; Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi • Pleasure Activism
Wakanda is the stuff of fiction — but it doesn’t have to be. The success of Black Panther revealed a hunger for experiencing other narratives; cities need to tell new and different stories, and that will occur only when more people get to tell them.
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
Where do the power structures and agency of learning reside? Who has power: the learner, or the educator and the institutions that deliver education services?
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
nihilism and
While science experiments often seem more straightforwardly and obviously good – a new life saving medicine or cheaper electricity solve clear problems – humanity’s uniqueness, and our ability to solve hard scientific problems in the first place, comes from our ability to coordinate and work together as social creatures. Democracy was a bloody,... See more
Packy McCormick • Social vs. Science Experiments
‘intergenerational learning spaces’. ‘I believe’, he told me, ‘that you need at least three generations exploring things together to generate the conditions for real wisdom and imagination to emerge.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
“Gen Z gamers view the metaverse as a safe place to freely express themselves, experiment with identities, establish friendships, and ultimately create a world they want to live in. It’s important that brands don’t dismiss the metaverse as a passing fad, but view it as a paradigm-shifting trend that’s just getting started.”
Business Wire • Razorfish Study Finds 52% of Gen Z Gamers Feel More Like Themselves in the Metaverse than in Real Life
It seems unlikely that the mainstreaming of burnout will lead to a more robust public conversation about the positive goods of idleness, or the pursuit of less alienated forms of work. The term has achieved cultural prominence precisely because it resonates with affluent professionals who fetishize overwork.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
“I want to think about time in a shared way,” Odell said. “What becomes possible collectively when you remove the grid, and stop thinking about it as little bits of time currency in each individual person’s time bank, and that all you can do is hoard it.”