Breaking old dualities: the (im)possibilites of the articulation

Abstract

In this article we intent to reflect on the concept of articulation in its theoretical and political potential. In that direction we have been following its particular uses in the critics, both in Marxist and Feminist traditions, to a monolithical political subject (particularly in the debates on the unity of the ?Left? and the ?fragmentary threat? of the Politics of Identity). Using as pretexts the works of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Stuart Hall, Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway, we delimit the content of this theoretical artifact that intent to speak for the conformation of political practices and subjects as ?moments of contingent closure? result of ?partial connections?.