The Ruin Dwellers

Traces the shifting dynamics within leftist activism in 1970s and ’80s Europe and its experiments in art, life, and politics. The Ruin Dwellers takes readers into the urban spaces of youth revolts during the 1970s and ’ 80s 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 ’ 80s developed a more complex set of temporal practices that