Group Rationalé

Rationalé + vision statement

What are we doing:

• Disrupting the idea of looking onto the past for for comfort of familiarity in avoidance of a progressing towards a future.
• Useful  
• De constructing nostalgia in a way that we can utilise it to progress rather regress 
• I want to explore and highlight the weaponisation of nostalgia in contemporary politics 
• I want to want to look into the ways that nostalgia can be felt for something you never experiences 
• Expoling personal experiences of nostalgia as a route into seeing how that is reflected in contemporary politics 
• To anylise a concept that is very abstract yet very intense to find its connections with the politics that form us yet we form 
• Hello, investigate the feeling and emotion of N and how that is used against us, and how it plagues us as we get old 
• The temporality of nostalgia 

Key Words: Personal, weaponised , romanticised..

We want to build a understanding of how personal and cultural nostalgia is formed, what it means and how it is mechanised in the public sphere. Our origin is such a abstract, that we aim to deconstruct sentimentality and temporality of nostalgia as a route into seeing how the phenomenon can encourage progress in politics rather than regression. 

Why we are doing what we are doing:

• Increase awareness
• Recognise the passive intake from politics , campaigns using nostalgia as a tool , exposing - how nostalgia is used ,
• To expose the forms by which nostalgia is used by politicians, organisations, corporations etc… to subconsciously affect the consumer and indoctrinate their views within them. We are highly aware that this isn’t something that we can stop or alter, but we believe that the exposition of the ways in which it manifests to the public is the most impactful thing we can do.

How we are going to do it:

-How is that going to shed light on what we are interested In?

-We are aiming to make a short audio-visual response to our findings throughout the entire module that leaves the viewer with a metaphorical broken nose from the power of nostalgia in answer to the question we have set ourselves.


by Mylo