Ifwe accept that we are not dealing with an essential Capitalism deriving from the logic of Capital, but rather with a singular capitalism formed by an ecol1omic-institutional ensemble, then we must be able to act on this ensemble and intervene in such a way as to invent a different capitalis.m. We do-nothave to carry on with capitalism so much as invent a new one.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 904