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Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics, praising its attention to climate change, but arguing it has a partial grasp of the contemporary situation. Wark contends that the commodity economy creates "metabolic rifts" between exchange value and use value, leading to problems like climate change. The ruling class is aware of these issues but is preparing for them by arming itself and building private "arks." Wark advocates for a new imaginary, a new space for thought and action, to claim the totality and open up modernity to more than one path to a viable future. He challenges the notion of "neoliberalism" as a restoration of a liberal order, arguing it's a new stage of the commodity economy with new technical infrastructures and forms of control. Wark also discusses changes in class composition, the decline of manufacturing, and the targeting of affective and informational labor by emerging forms of commodification. He emphasizes the need for a popular poetics to stitch together local and specific forms of challenge and struggle, and cautions against too quick a dismissal of existing forms of theory and praxis.