The Process of Articulation

As stated in the reading, "an articulation is ... the form of the connection that can be made between two difference elements, under certain circumstances." Specifically, articulations are "the ways that people understand, work with, and reconstruct technologies, and the ways that those activities both suggest and reflect changes in our cultures."

If we look toward everyday activities involving technology and attempt to make a connection to larger cultural trends, we may be more productive as symbolic-analytic workers. Part of this attempt to connect will include a rearticulation of "what we mean when we talk about communicating and working." If we discard the possibility that analyzing our everyday lives can help to anticipate and address this rearticulation, the symbolic-analytic worker will not survive. To prevent this from happening, we must "[understand] revolution from the inside."

Articulation, then, is a physical process, that allows for a deeper, intellectual understanding. Technology is invented. It is introduced for a specific purpose in a specific time and place; yet, we all manage to redefine technology as we want it to fit within our own specific lives. In this way, the technology is connected to our lives in a way that wasn't originally intended. The technology becomes whatever we want or need it to be. "Articulation ... offers a way of representing the possibility of resistance to dominant cultural formations."