DistinctionHabitat names the environment produced when a constructed difference becomes sufficiently stable, repeated and material to appear natural. The distinction no longer functions only as a conceptual line; institutions, spaces, habits and expectations gather around it until life is organised inside the separation it created. The operator identifies how classifications become inhabitable worlds and asks whether the habitat keeps reproducing a difference whose original construction has disappeared from view.
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