MK of the Mind

How do we define culture in modern cities? And does Milton Keynes have it?
What do we mean when we say culture? The word can be used to describe everything from fashion to art, literature to architecture, music to science and everything in between. The idea of culture is thoroughly embedded into our ideas about what makes for thriving interesting and successful communities both today and throughout history. Stuart Hall, formerly professor of sociology at the Open University, challenged the association of culture with elite arts and pointed instead to the cultural richness of everyday. But if there’s no objective metric for measuring the cultural value of a society why are some towns and cities perceived to have a greater cultural currency than others? In this short film The Open University’s Dr Liz McFall deconstructs conventional ideas of culture and argues that the new town of Milton Keynes, often viewed as a cultural desert, is in a perfect case for testing ideas about what culture is and what it has to do with economy.
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[@drtydawg73]

i live in mk and love it, i moved here purposely because of its architecture and lay out planning. all the greenery and low rise buildings. but unfortunately in the last 10 years or so this planning has gone out the window and the council are absolutely destroying the town with their maniacle quest to make it a city and get the city status. i thought it funny the zoomed it on my x girlfriends house at one point. lol

[@Rachel_M_]

the title led me to believe this would be a brief history of the MK ultra mind control project, imagine my disappointment lol

[@9ZenMedia]

steve d Right. I thought it would be a similar project using the media to mass program people with propaganda.

[@Rachel_M_]

on closer inspection, Stuart Hall's daughter trained in child and adolescent psycotherapy at the Tavistock clinic...... hmmmmm........ stuarthallfoundation.org/about-us/who-we-are/

[@southsudani983]

steve d same! I'm.dissapointed

[@9ZenMedia]

The vocal echo effects on certain sections are pretty annoying.

[@Rachel_M_]

maybe it is a subtle mind control after all :/

[@davidrobot7818]

+Shaun, i think this was due to poor recording/editing.

[@9ZenMedia]

What’s so bad about Milton Keynes?

[@9ZenMedia]

Never mind I just popped off to read 1984, Brave new world, and a few others. Got it now.

[@Rachel_M_]

ever been there? i think "non entity" is the proper phrase lol. i've been there a few times on deliveries, and it is all islands, everywhere

[@importantname]

soccer hooligans are part of european culture