We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice… — Jean Baudrillard
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and smug in "the social," our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
In the original French
Nous devenons comme les chats, d'un parasitisme narquois d'une domesticite indifferente. Bien au chaud dans le social, nos passions historiques se sont repliees dans la lueur d'une intimite artificielle et nos yeux mi-clos ne guettent plus que le defile pacifique des images televisuelles.
1987
★ 5.0Provenance
Citation
Baudrillard, Jean. Cool Memories: 1980-1985. Editions Galilee, 1987, ch. 1.
