• Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

    Roland Barthes: Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
    Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.346, Univ of California Press