Sovereignty over nature required the modern state’s machinery to become real

Evidence

For the concept and idea of sovereignty over nature to have any extramental and actual effect-that is, to be more than just an idea-it needed the machinery of the modern state, and for the state to engage in anything beyond what rulers, kings, and emperors have done since time immemorial, it needed the concept of sovereignty, a concept that gave it its modern status, its modernity. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 205

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A society’s project of mastering nature becomes exclusive and totalizing once institutionalized. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 99; Physiocrats justified taxation by making the sovereign co-owner of the land — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1459