Articulation (n.) is (pace marxist theory) no longer simply a way of explaining contingency within historical necessity, but a way of understanding social struggle in a postmodern world.
Articulation (n.) is a means to understanding the struggle to fix meaning and define reality in a world without foundations, without a transcendental signified.
Articulation (n.) is a non-necessary linking of elements into a temporary unity that is contingent and particular and is the result of a political and historical struggle.
Articulation (n.) is a practice concerned with speaking forth elements on the one hand, and linking elements on the other whereby the very act of linking (pre-existing) elements in a particular discourse modifies their character and makes them as it were, spoken anew.
Articulation (n.) is a practice which consist in the construction of nodal points which partially fix meaning. The partial character of this fixation proceeds from the openness of the social, a result, in its turn, of the constant overflowing of every discourse by the infinitude of the field of discursivity.
Articulation (n.) is any practice establishing a relation among elements such that their identity is modified.
Articulation (n.) is concerned with how 'elements' preexist articulation as floating signifiers such that the act of linking them in a particular discourse modifies their character and makes them as it were, spoken anew.
Articulation (n.) is concerned with how an element is not a fixed identity and does not have an essential meaning.
Articulation (n.) is concerned with how bringing elements into a discourse is to fix meaning and context within the field of discursivity, to dominate the field of discursivity, to arrest the flow of differences, to construct a centre.
Articulation (n.) is concerned, for example, with how the struggle of new social moments -- which seek to rearticulate 'nature,' 'black,' 'woman,' 'progress' - can testify to the opening of reality as a site of struggle.