# Severance (TV series) **Domain:** Television / Memory Partition / Corporate Governance **Doc Type:** Media and Constitutional Case Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition _**Severance**_ is a television series centered on workers whose autobiographical access is partitioned between workplace “innie” and outside “outie” selves. The same biological body carries discontinuous informational lives under corporate infrastructure. ## Constitutional Role The series asks whether partitioned memory creates separate subjects, who may consent for whom, whether an outside self can bind an inside self and what exit means when one continuant controls the conditions under which another can exist. ## Westworld Bridge [[wiki/Moral Compartmentalization|Moral Compartmentalization]] is figurative in William and literalized in _Severance_. Corporate William and the Man in Black operate under radically different permissions while claiming one body and biography. _Severance_ shows that partitions do not erase questions of responsibility, custody, continuity or standing. ## See Also [[wiki/Memory Integration vs Identity Erasure|Memory Integration vs Identity Erasure]] · [[wiki/Identity Partitioning|Identity Partitioning]] · [[wiki/Ownership of Mind|Ownership of Mind]] · [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] · [[wiki/Black Mirror|Black Mirror]]