(noun) something that covers or encloses / (noun) an enveloping layer (as a skin, membrane, or cuticle) of an organism or one of its parts
in the language of Marx, this acceleration of neoliberalism will lead to a point of incompatibility with the capitalist integument, which will then be burst asunder
What Indiana portrays in place of this myth is a kind of pathological integument binding together nodes of “normalcy,” where the deficits and obsessions characteristic of the criminal appear in an acceptable guise