The inhabited ruins of Central Europe : re-imagining space, history, and memory / edited by Dariusz Gafijczuk and Derek Sayer.

• Notes on Contributors -- Prologue: The Day the Wall Came Down (American Surreal) / Derek Sayer -- Introduction: Delicate Empiricism / Dariusz Gafijczuk -- 1. Ruins and Representations of 1989 : Exception, Normality, Revolution / Tim Beasley-Murray -- 2. The Ruins of a Myth or a Myth in Ruins? : Freedom and Cohabitation in Central Europe / Paul Blokker -- 3. Democracy in Ruins : The case of the Hungarian Parliament / Endre Danyi -- 4. Itinerant Memory Places : The Baader-Meinhof-Wagen / Kimberly Mair -- 5. Edith Doesn't Live Here Anymore : A Story of Farnsworth House / Yoke-Sum Wong -- 6. Comments on Comments : Fake Fragments, Fake Ruins, and Genuine Paper Ruination / Jindrich Toman -- 7. How We Remember and What We Forget : Art History and the Czech Avant-garde / Derek Sayer -- 8. Anxious Geographies -- Inhabited Traditions / Dariusz Gafijczuk -- 9. Terezin as Reverse Potemkin Ruin, in Five Movements and an Epilogue / Michael Beckerman -- 10. Desert Europa and the Sea of Ruins : The Post-Apocalyptic Imagination in Egon Bondy's Afghanistan / Jonathan Bolton -- 11. History's Loose Ends : Reflections on the Structure of Velvet Revolutions / Peter Zusi.

• "The eleven essays in this volume explore the surprising resilience of productive instabilities enclosed in historical asymmetries, cultural paradoxes, and misplaced topographies. The recent history of Central Europe - a history that vividly blurs the line between imagination and reality - is a particularly vibrant case study of such dynamics, the same dynamics that lie at the heart of modern perception. It investigates how varied and opposing tendencies co-exist and are transposed from one cultural and temporal register to another; how they emerge and are maintained in constantly renewed, productive tensions - what we call 'inhabited ruins.' Along the way the reader will encounter music from the Terezin concentration camp as a reversed Potemkin village, the BMW as an itinerant lieu de memoire, Mies van der Rohe's architecture as spaces belonging nowhere, anxious geographies, extra-territorial sounds, misremembered avant-gardes, and post-apocalyptic identities that fell out of time"-- 

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