rob wrote: (we need not follow >Foucault, who seemed to think history is nought but an accumulation of >documents written by victors with the future in mind - history has left >plenty that wasn't particularly meant to tell stories years or centuries >later well, i think foucault agrees. as would walter benjamin. i think maybe you are confusing what foucault (and benjamin) see as official history and the possibility of a history which breaks with such 'stories from the point of view of the victors'. angela