The Constitutional Imaginaries of Crisis and Emergency: Between Battle of Narratives and Entanglement in Quantum Constitutionalism
摘要
The main claim of this chapter is that constitutional imaginaries are elements of a quasi-neural meta-personal network of consciousness through which the people understand the constitutional order. This network is based on textual, visual, and performative narratives that inspire, engage with, and organize the collective constitutional conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. It produces meaning on the basis of imaginary constitutional enchantment through affectual and emotional nudging and symbolic engagement with constitutional archetypes and other anthropological structures of collective constitutional ‘make-believe’. The chapter shows that the constitutional imaginaries of crisis and emergency are a result of competing narratives, which may amount to battles for control of the narrative. They are ensuing from narrative sovereignty as the ultimate source of narrative quantum entanglement of meaning. The narratives are producing—alternatively or cumulatively—constitutional imaginaries which are shaping the collective constitutional conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. The analysis of the narrative-based character of constitutional imaginaries of crisis and emergency is then followed by an outlining of the fundamental concepts of quantum constitutionalism, cloud constitutionalism, and quantum entanglement of the constitutional order via constitutional imaginaries. This allows for the proper embedding of crisis and emergency in the context of quantum constitutionalism.