Every housing choice in modernity enacts some form of self-betrayal or embalmment.

Evidence

Anyone seeking refuge in a genuine, but purchased, period-style house, embalms himself alive. The attempt to evade responsibility for one’s residence by moving into a hotel or furnished rooms, makes the enforced conditions of emigration a wisely-chosen norm. The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. They live, if not in slums, in bungalows that by tomorrow may be leaf-huts, trailers, cars, camps, or the open air. The house is past. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 34

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 124

Broader Connections

• Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property #expands (0.85) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 124