{"product_id":"the-ruin-dwellers-progress-and-its-discontents-in-the-west-german-counterculture-hardcover","title":"The Ruin Dwellers: Progress and Its Discontents in the West German Counterculture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJake P. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraces the shifting dynamics within leftist activism in 1970s and '80s Europe and its experiments in art, life, and politics. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ruin Dwellers \u003c\/i\u003etakes readers into the urban spaces of youth revolts during the 1970s and \u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e80s in West Germany and elsewhere in western and central Europe. Whereas earlier generations of leftist activists were primarily oriented toward the utopian future, participants in the youth movements of the 1970s and \u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e80s developed a more complex set of temporal practices that sought to scramble the borders between the past, present, and future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Examining a rich corpus of radical texts and practices, historian Jake P. Smith shows that squatters and their leftist allies in this period engaged in social, cultural, and aesthetic experiments with modes of autonomous living. Smith brings to life the real and imagined landscapes conjured in squatted houses and street protests; in art, dress, music, graffiti, and film; and in philosophical, poetic, and political texts. In so doing, he offers an eye-opening look at anarchic world-making practices that found new ways of imagining an emancipated future through inhabiting the fractured past.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46981107122351,"sku":"9780226823591","price":189.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/7314\/1679\/files\/C0z0hnfLuW9780226823591.webp?v=1780147724","url":"https:\/\/valuevaultclub.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ruin-dwellers-progress-and-its-discontents-in-the-west-german-counterculture-hardcover","provider":"Value Vault Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}