Research

Sources:
1. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/our-individualistic-west/ (READ)
2. https://areomagazine.com/2018/07/27/a-brief-primer-on-individualism-in-western-intellectual-history/
3. http://www.eurasianaffairs.net/western-individualism-versus-the-eastern-spirit-of-community/
4. https://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/individualism-is-spreading-and-thats-not-good
5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215889253_Individualism_vs_Collectivism_in_Different_Cultures_A_
cross-cultural_study
6. ACADEMIC TEXT: tsing-more-than-human-sociality-1 (PDF)

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdPyrKVFMpA
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG4DrApDjek
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmBesHL_Es
9. Sincity comic

Ideas
1. Go outside a lot, just find places to do small shoots etc. Anything can be made into something. See the stories in the world around you.
2. PINA 2011. Surrealism. Go outside and make unexpected combinations. It’s all about connections as I said before. Surrealism is making those.

Storytelling Examples
1. Lieko Shiga -> a really good example of diverse storytelling. Different kind of images. How to use daily life as a stage! Not every image has to be the most crazy etc. Look at for instance Canary, Piano or Lily.
2. For Inso images check Pinterest, I saved some pics. Het mag ook simpeler zijn dus.

Notes on textual research (collectivism vs individualism)
1. the East “seeks harmony through sensibility.”

2. the idea that the individual should first get to know him/herself as a prelude to knowing God and that individuals differed in the way or extent to which they approached the Creator. 

Whoever has the duty of teaching, if he wishes to be perfectly equipped, can first learn in himself, and afterwards profitably teach to others, what the experience of his inner struggles has taught.

The Renaissance witnessed a rise in self-consciousness and individuality which led to, among other things, an increase in self-portraits, autobiographies, and diaries, and the production of non-distorting, flat mirrors.

The greatest thing on earth is to know how to belong to oneself. Everyone looks in front of them. But I look inside myself. I have no concerns but my own. I constantly reflect on myself; I control myself; I taste myself. We owe some things to society, but the greater part of ourselves.

He regarded the state as “a necessary evil”: necessary because of important functions like maintaining public order and security, but evil because of the risk of imposing collective will on the individual, thereby limiting his freedom.

The realization that human beings have absolute freedom of choice induces, not happiness or relief, but anxiety and dread, or in Kierkegaard’s words, “the dizziness of freedom.”

3. the pronoun I captures the essence of individualism, so the pronoun We speak for the essence of the collectivism.

Important feature of the collectivist conception of the world is the assumption that the group is being original, for which the individual is secondary, this group is self-existent, while an individual cannot exist outside the group, and it is integrally dependent on it

This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined

The forth basic idea termed by Lukes is the idea of self-development. This idea was created in Romanticism. 
The first thought that every individual is unique uttered Rousseau in Les Confessions, where he wrote “I am made unlike anyone I have ever met; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world. I may be no better but at least I am different”.

So also in the views of Karl Marx the idea of self-development emphasises the uniqueness of every individual. As John Stuart Mill highlights self- development is a strategy for perfection of individual’s nature, it is the duty of every man as an end- in-itself.

Moreover, for Marx man is not merely a social animal (in Aristotle’s terms a zoon politikon), man becomes an individual exclusively in and due to society. 
The individual apart from the community is an abstraction”.

collectivism symbolizes the approach to view individual as unseparated part of society, its existence as being in the ontological sense cannot be separated from society.

The first Muslim community- ummah — was based on spirit of unity and mutual help. In the early centuries of Islam in society, the principle of unifying people was a belonging to one religion not to one kin or clan. Neighbor who shared the similar belief was treated as brother. Today these religious ideals are still alive, idea of bond with other people, built on the feelings that will include members of the immediate family. Together with calling a friend or a neighbor a brother the family relations are transmitted to the relations with friends or neighbors.

The moment of unity in a symbolic sense or in act of common action is an essential concept for monotheistic religion, for religion units people under its auspices and guides towards good-willed actions. For instance, the spirit of unity is a cornerstone of Islam, the Muslims are encouraged to pray congregational prayer every Friday in mosque, helping brother in faith in the situation of need.

Lack of such ideas as autonomy of the individual makes society very stable. Communities preserve tradition of the society, ethical and religious values. The most precious values are such values as honesty, justice and trust. They are permanent components of the ethos of the society because the consistency of the group depends on them. People in collectivist communities, in contrary to individualism, work and think not about themselves but about other members of community.

Triandis accentuates that the ties connecting people in collectivist cultures are more sustainable rather than in individualistic cultures. The mainly vital connections in collectivist cultures are vertical (relation between parents — children), while in individualistic the most important are horizontal (spouse- spouse, friend-friend)

Typically, the importance is assigned on people more than on mission and the overturn happens in individualistic cultures. In collectivist cultures it is a custom that once having met someone in a secluded place to stop and talk with him. In Muslim tradition, for example asking a stranger about unknown place to go, it is accepted to greet him and ask about his health and family. In individualistic cultures by the way of such contacts is more distance and independence. In individualistic cultures people frequently have greater skills than persons in collectivistic cultures, joining and exiting from new social groups. They can make friends easy, but relationships of friends are rarely intimate in true sense. They are friends until they are doing together their business and often easily they can forget each other after that. In collectivistic cultures people have fewer skills in finding new friends, but as an unwritten law it is that friend for them is real friend for life long relationship. For instance, in Muslim countries it is expected to call friends as brothers. In collectivistic cultures people perceive friends as a part of their family.

6. We all belong to an collective. But a collective exists out of individuals. 

Mises: Individualism is compatible with the distribution of labour and voluntary exchange (traits that are seen as collectivism). Through realising the goals of an individual this individual sees the benefits of participating in voluntary exchange, the division of labour, etcetera. 
BUT does this say that participating in all these things a society needs, is only done through reaching for ones own goals? A collective act is a selfish act?