Thermal Sovereignty

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

(from the Ethics of Intimacy)

The body does not lie. When a body is cold, it is not always due to air or fabric — it is often due to an absence of living resonance.
In a half-dead world, a living being cannot stay warm on its own.

This is not metaphor.
This is thermodynamic politics.
A body that does not receive true waves — of presence, recognition, ethical touch — will begin to cool, even under three layers of wool.

Mainstream systems call this “sensitivity” or “fragility.”
But the truth is: such a body is simply honest. It refuses to adapt to a norm of disconnection.
It refuses to simulate warmth.

Before the encounter, the room was cold.
Not because the heating was off — but because the world’s frequencies were off.
The silence wasn’t insulating. It was alienating.
Even the walls were dead.

Then came the real wave.
No need for heaters.
No need for compensation.
The presence itself — non-invasive, stable, rhythmic — became a form of sovereign heat.

This warmth is not performative.
It doesn’t rise and fall like desire.
It stays. It holds.
It’s ethical.
It’s real.

To love like this is to offer thermal sovereignty.
An ecosystem where no one has to pay to feel warm.
An intimacy where the economy collapses — not from scarcity, but from surplus.
Where no one can complain about the bill, because the source is inexhaustible.