{"id":799,"date":"2008-09-17T07:44:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=799"},"modified":"2008-09-17T07:44:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:44:57","slug":"799","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/17\/799\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social structures are best conceptualized as systems of meaningful practices marked by an inherent lack and undecidability (citing Laclau, New Reflections) &#8230; It is now the case that <strong>every<\/strong> social process of putting together elements is to some degree <strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">articulatory,<\/span><\/strong> and this is because they (and the agents of articulation) are not governed by an underlying metaphysical principle or ground<\/p>\n<p>[T]he crucial ingredient of an <strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">articulatory<\/span><\/strong> practice involves conceptualizing the relation between articulated elements as non-necessary or contingent.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Articulation, therefore, &#8216;is the primary ontological level of the constitution of the real&#8217;<\/span><\/strong>, and will thus always involve &#8216;the creation of something new out of a dispersion of elements&#8217; (citing Laclau Interview 1988:16).\u00a0 &#8230; the\u00a0 gathering of heterogeneous elements under a name is necessarily a singularity: &#8216;[t]he less a society is kept together by immanent differential mechanisms, the more it depends, for its coherence, on this transcendent, singular moment&#8217; (citing Laclau, On Populist Reason, 2005: 100).\u00a0 &#8230; the identity of each element that is articulated is always &#8216;modified as a result of the articulatory practice&#8217; (LM HSS, 1985: 105).\u00a0 More formally, then, we can isolate the contingency, singularity, and modification of elements, as three key aspects of an articulatory practice\u00a0 (180).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social structures are best conceptualized as systems of meaningful practices marked by an inherent lack and undecidability (citing Laclau, New Reflections) &#8230; It is now the case that every social process of putting together elements is to some degree articulatory, and this is because they (and the agents of articulation) are not governed by an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/17\/799\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}