ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on preceding step involving the conditions of the distinction between what is properly democratic and what is economic. It explains the confluence and the emergence and with it the comprehensive turn towards a Court-centred paradigm of constitutionalism that seals the eclipse of the democratic imaginary in Europe. The new semantics thus provides the economy with a new reservoir for siphoning off further profits. The chapter outlines that sees the inability of capitalism to reproduce itself as the limit of the logic of a catastrophic system, and where the current crisis is the expression of the profound contradictions that beset its functioning. The parasite has intercepted the reproductive cycle of the political system feeding off its energies: capitalism capitalises on the crisis and renews itself through precipitating and then 'managing' catastrophic trajectories. The chapter also focuses on the framing work that is done by the disjuncture.
