Jonathan Schofield4d ago

RE: https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/116317799117058655

“The *livelihoods challenge* – how can urban centres ‘earn their living’ and find meaning and purpose for their communities and the lives of their members?

In doing this, I will also widen the horizon to consider the absolute limits that confront not just the present extraction-expropriation-accumulation regime but all of humanity.”

That’s an excerpt from the PDF linked to from Mark’s uncommon tater.

#degrowth

Show threadJonathan Schofield

…The essay in @markhburton’s PDF – https://uncommontater.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/the-livelihood-challenge-v3-1.pdf – is very good. I’ve not read in full yet, but it’s making me think how good it could be as an Adam Curtis but NOT Adam Curtis style film.

Like Adam Curtis in the sense that there are arresting library clips to support the narrative, and some cool music.

NOT like Adam Curtis in the sense that it takes an hour or maybe two to directly say it all, instead of 6 hours to only allude to an inchoate disquiet that must not directly be named

Mar 30 at 12:01pmWeb
Show threadJonathan Schofield4d ago
…aaaand NOT like Adam Curtis in that it ends with practical calls to action that people can actually take, so they feel like there is agency within their grasp
Show threadMark Burton4d ago
@urlyman
And to get some idea of (what Raymond Williams called) the 'structure of feeling' of Bolton and similar places, try the fantastic 'Alma's not normal' https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p09r3q71/almas-not-normal
Alma's Not Normal

If she can’t be normal, she’ll at least be fabulous. Wild child Alma and her clan of eccentric, unruly women aim to make waves in Bolton. Award-winning comedy by Sophie Willan.

BBC iPlayer
Show threadJonathan Schofield4d ago
@markhburton thanks. I’d missed that. Just watched 5 minutes. Like it :)
Show threadMark Burton4d ago
@urlyman Yes, it's great. my grown-up daughter binge watched both series.