ON THE MODALITIES OF THE DOMESTIC.

The article deals with the experiences of the domestic in relation with the kinds of sentiments about life that includes houses, intimacy and privacy. It provides information on the concept of singularity as lying in the potential for multiple domesticities that emerge at different times which are either conterminous with family or with household members. It traces how intimacy and alienation mark the constant moves from, to, and through households in interstice of the house, the clinic, the prison, and the street.