Absent the alternative there is no survival, the sovereign will continue to breathe, the world will continue to melt.
Clover 20, Joshua Clover teaches critical and political theory in the departments of English and Comparative Literature at UC Davis, “The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour”, March 29th 2020, JLB, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/711429#
We must take this fact with the utmost seriousness: that Foucault’s new regime of power appears in the late eighteenth century, which is to say, alongside the steam engine and the industrial revolution, which is also to say, alongside the liftoff of anthropogenic climate change. We need to stop fucking around with theory and say, without hesitation, that capitalism, with its industrial body and crown of finance, is sovereign; that carbon emissions are the sovereign breathing; that make work and let buy must be annihilated; that there is no survival while the sovereign lives.