Definitions HQ

Segmentarity (n.) cuts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠up not only states and classes but people and even feelings — not to disperse them but to guarantee each one's identity, personal identity included.

Segmentarity (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the supple kind is no leftover of the savage in us but a fully modern function — without it our rigid segments would not hold.

Segmentarity (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the rigid kind is not a bad line: it includes much tenderness and love, and always seems to prevail in the end.

Segmentarity (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the rigid kind is the life of a couple whose segments fit: you count words, I weigh things — they have a future but no becoming.

Segmentarity (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the supple kind dismantles the concretions of the rigid line only to reassemble them on its own level: micro-Oedipuses, microfascisms.