The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seriality \Se`ri*al"i*ty\, n.
The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence.
--H. Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. The process of occurring in a sequential manner; a serial arrangement; a succession.
Wikipedia
Seriality or serial collectivity is a term that feminist scholar Iris Marion Young used to describe a reconceptualization of the category of woman in her 1994 essay Gender as Seriality. Young borrows the concept of seriality from Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, where he originally developed the idea to describe the relationship of individuals to social classes and the capitalist system of production and consumption. Understanding women as a series, rather than a group, entails the recognition that the category woman is not defined by any common biological or psychological characteristics; rather, individuals are positioned as woman by a set of material and immaterial social constructs that are the product of previous human actions.
A seriality is a social construct which differs from a mere group of individuals. Serialities take the form of labels which are either imposed onto persons or voluntarily adopted by them. A seriality can be "unbound" and self-identified, for example workers, patriots, or anarchists, or "bound" and identified by authority census and elections, such as Asian-Americans or Tutsis.
Benedict Anderson describes bound seriality as an insidious power grab by political authority. When a state gains an interest in power they may serialize their citizens in order to identify them, for example, forcing citizens to adopt a family name or (more recently) a national identification number.
The term is also used in gender studies.
Usage examples of "seriality".
Just as Nietzschean power tends to coagulate in reactivity, the Sartrean group tends to dissolve into seriality, which, like the morality of the slave, is defined by that which is outside of it.