http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/2013/03/01/history-repeats-itself-coiling-down-into-the-future/ Nikki's E-Learning and Digital Cultures site - part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/2013/03/01/history-repeats-itself-coiling-down-into-the-future/#comment-808 Jen Ross Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:16:55 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/nikkib/?p=341#comment-808 I went looking for this quote in context, because I didn't quite get the force of it above - what Foucault is saying, I think, is that a real understanding of history innoculates us against wanting to return to it? I'm reminded of a brilliant segment of the Daily Show (US news satire) where in their typical clever patchwork style they showed how politicians invoked "simpler, better times" that just so happened to co-incide with when they themselves were about 5 years old. ie: it was simpler because you were a toddler and didn't understand anything about the world... I went looking for this quote in context, because I didn’t quite get the force of it above – what Foucault is saying, I think, is that a real understanding of history innoculates us against wanting to return to it? I’m reminded of a brilliant segment of the Daily Show (US news satire) where in their typical clever patchwork style they showed how politicians invoked “simpler, better times” that just so happened to co-incide with when they themselves were about 5 years old. ie: it was simpler because you were a toddler and didn’t understand anything about the world…

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