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Climate change is treated as the most urgent rift, produced by substitution of technology for labor alongside expanding energy and resource extraction. The text argues for reclaiming the totality of the biosphere, challenging “neoliberal” narratives, and reassessing class composition, conflict fragmentation, and the need for a unifying rhetorical language.","\\#Celerity: A Critique of the Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics  \nMcKenzie Wark  \n0.0 You have to love any manifesto which gets to climate change in only its second paragraph. It shows a keen attention to the actual agenda of the times. This is not the least merit of \\#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics. It has at least some grasp of contemporary conjuncture in which we find ourselves. But the grasp is in my view, only partial. In some ways it’s a rather old-fashioned text. Of course, one is always drawing on the past to imagine a future. But this process – some would call it détournement, some would call it hacking – has to be done with a little more historical depth and breadth. What follows, then, is a friendly commentary and critique of \\#Accelerate. The numbering of these counter-theses match those of the original document.  \n1.1 The widening gyre of the commodity economy is a series of what, after Marx, we can call metabolic rifts. In the division between exchange value and use value, commodity exchange severs objects from the matrices of their engendering. Only one side of the double form of value is subject to a quantitative feedback loop – exchange value. Its vestigial double – use value – or the mesh from which things are  \nextracted, is not so easily quantified. And so rifts open up in the metabolic process. Rifts which political systems borne of the successive eras of commodity economy cannot even recognize as problems, let alone solve.  \n1.2 Climate change is the most troubling of these rifts, but there are many others. The problem with the dynamic of the commodity economy is that the struggle within it of subordinated classes tends, among other things, to force the ruling class toward substituting technology for direct labor. But each of these substitutions draws in turn on more energy and more material resources. The whole infrastructure of the global commodity economy has by now committed itself to the consumption of more resources than may even exist. The ruling class, when not deluding itself with various ideological ruses, surely knows that maintaining a commodity economy on full speed ahead can only worsen various metabolic rifts, climate disruption among them. One suspects it is quietly preparing for this, arming itself, building its private arks.  \n1.3 Against this hideous prospect, its high time for anew imaginary, a new space for thought and action. Such an imaginary already exists, but in fragments. The difficulty for subordinate classes is always the  \nproject of the totality, the very thing over which they have no power. Well, nobody has power over the totality as totality any more! The biosphere is in decline as a result of a mass of private interests competing to chop it into bits of exchange value. The challenge is to claim the totality, to open it, to put modernity back in play as a space affording more than one path to a viable future.  \n1.4 The ruling class would like us to imagine that the‘neoliberal’ future is the only one. This term needs tobe challenged on a number of fronts. Firstly, this isnot a restoration of a liberal order. Its something new. It was not a turning back of the clock to a form of commodity economy prior to the welfare state and all the other compromises wrested from the ruling class by organized labor and the social movements. It’s anew stage, based on new technical infrastructures, new forms of control. Secondly: what makes anyone think capitalism was ever ‘liberal’ in the first place? The autonomy of the economic sphere is itself an ideological proposition. The ‘liberal’ economic sphere was achieved through massive state violence against premodern peoples and their ways of life. So: there was no liberal capitalism; there is no neoliberal capitalism. But there is a new stage of the commodity economy whose contours are rather undefined  \ntheoretically, and not least because the left buys into the ‘neoliberal’myth as much as the right.  \n1.5 In t","cbCaihadN8QTxrhc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihadN8QTxrhc","pdf",126591,3,1,19,"English","en",105,"# Celerity: A Critique of the Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics\n## Friendly commentary and critique of #Accelerate\n## Metabolic rifts and the commodity economy\n## Climate change as a central rift\n## Reimagining totality and political imagination\n## Challenging “neoliberal” frameworks\n## Class composition and declining industrial leverage\n## Fragmented conflict and the need for semantic glue\n## Celerity","[{\"question\":\"What does the critique mean by “metabolic rifts” in the commodity economy?\",\"answer\":\"It refers to a split between exchange value and use value that disconnects objects from the processes that generate them, opening rifts in the metabolic process of 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