Without metaphors it is impossible to express a single thought. All effort to rise above images is doomed to fail. — Johan Huizinga, “The Waning of the Middle Ages” As I scroll through twitter and am inundated with images of King Charles III’s coronation, I can’t help but feel weird about them; the silks, the gold, the jewels—its iconography amalgamates into a dark irony, like a parody of itself, made further sour by the increasing desperation of the UK’s people with the cost of living crisis.
Ceci n'est pas une couronne
Ceci n'est pas une couronne
Ceci n'est pas une couronne
Without metaphors it is impossible to express a single thought. All effort to rise above images is doomed to fail. — Johan Huizinga, “The Waning of the Middle Ages” As I scroll through twitter and am inundated with images of King Charles III’s coronation, I can’t help but feel weird about them; the silks, the gold, the jewels—its iconography amalgamates into a dark irony, like a parody of itself, made further sour by the increasing desperation of the UK’s people with the cost of living crisis.