Images of the crown: depersonified governmentalities, a new multitude, and primitive thinking
ENWe could start from the question: what are the possible images of a crown? What is crown and, at the same time, what is a crown, from, for example, a historical, theoretical or metaphorical perspective? The typical, straightforward image of the crown is of its attachment to a body. One of its functions is, as simple as it is, to be on the body—body and crown form an inseparable singular entity. This is the right image, the right placement—if there would be no bodies (in an ideal situation), what would a crown be? To be sure, it is also part of the apparel; it is like a bracelet which, without a body, would be just a round piece of metal. But the function of a crown is not only to make a body beautiful; this is not what makes a crown a Crown. There is another crown—Crown, as the symbol, the fiction, or even the ghost of the body. It is the symbol of and fiction about the second "body" of/besides the natural/physical body on witch it is placed. [...].
