The artist Rainer Ganahl has been creatively adapting the writings of
Karl Marx to his own work since the 1990s. The German philosopher's
ideas have galvanized projects such as Ganahl's irreverent fashion show
Commes des Marxists, a series of obscene food sculptures inspired by the
"credit crunch" of 2008, and a Karl Marx fire extinguisher, which allows
the thinker's wisdom to be sprayed onto any conflict. There has never
been a more fitting time, however, for the release of this book, which
appears on the 10th anniversary of the global financial crisis, and 200
years after Marx's birth. In more than 700 pages, Manhattan Marxism
assembles essays, photos, and other documentation from dozens of
Ganahl's Marx-themed projects from the past decade.
**Contributors
**Arthur Fink, Rainer Ganahl, Liam Gillick, Johan Hartle, Steve Lyons,
Antonio Negri, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak