I’m just reading this chapter on articulation and it’s interesting because it highlights the issues that articulation brings to social order. “In fact, we persuaded not to speak, because articulation poses a threat to corporate interests.” (18) It almost slipped my mind how important words are and the discomfort I get from having discourse about certain sociopolitical topics.

But, I’m writing this post because our writing prompt popped up in the reading and it was brought up in a way I wasn’t exactly expecting. It’s noted in the text that Pablo Picasso once said, “Creativity is first of all an act of destruction” (19).  I guess I was thrown off because of the severity creativity holds within this context and the simple fact that I haven’t ever thought of creativity signifying this idea PERIOD. Really makes me re-evaluate the discomfort with my own art projects and more importantly, my capstone idea. Not sure if it has the same connotation for anyone else that reads the text but this is what it was for me…

“Articulation is expression, communication, speaking, pointing, verbalization, clarification, and enunciation.” (18)