Definition
Power over the agricultural, industrial, distributive, and metabolic architecture through which calories become available, affordable, and biologically consequential.
HAKKI TAN · REALITY PARADIGM · HT–13
Caloric Sovereignty
Power over the agricultural, industrial, distributive, and metabolic architecture through which calories become available, affordable, and biologically consequential.
“Control over calories includes control over the field in which food becomes practical.”
CANONICAL DEFINITIONHT–13
What is Caloric Sovereignty?
Within Hakkı Tan's Reality Paradigm research programme, Caloric Sovereignty names power over the agricultural, industrial, distributive, and metabolic architecture through which calories become available, affordable, and biologically consequential.
Analytical question
How do crop regimes, commodity chains, price structures, processing, and food access organise not only energy supply but metabolic exposure?
Conceptual boundary
Caloric Sovereignty does not reduce nutrition to calorie counting and does not prescribe autarky. It analyses control over the composition and consequences of the food-energy field.
Place in the research programme
It extends Constructed Food Reality into agricultural policy, food engineering, affordability, and the political economy of metabolic exposure.
RELATED TERMS AND FORMS
Caloric SovereigntyKalorik EgemenlikCaloric powerGlycaemic architectureKalori egemenliği
SUGGESTED CITATION
Tan, Hakkı. “Caloric Sovereignty.” Hakkitan.org — Hakkı Tan Research Archive, 2026. https://hakkitan.org/concepts/caloric-sovereigntyhttps://hakkitan.org/concepts/caloric-sovereignty