We forget all kinds of things, topics and techniques, in different ways. Forgetting grave political factors can lead to repeating the same mistakes. Repression, personal and social, will lead to catastrophe. The analysis of things and techniques relinquished offers counter-strategies to the loss of social experience and memory.
Georg Schmid was Professor at the University of Salzburg. His areas of research include modern and contemporary history, theory of history, semiology, transport, film.
Sigrid Schmid-Bortenschlager was Professor at the University of Salzburg. Her research interests include modern, experimental, comparative literature, women writers, semiology.