Marx’s study of capital itself dissolved the identity theory of correspondence

Evidence

But the break is also provoked theoretically. For the more Marx examined in depth the capitalist mode of production, the more he observed the internal complexities of its laws and relations: and the less he thought this complex whole could be expounded in terms of the immediate correspondence between one of its circuits and another, let alone one of its levels and all the others. This major revision is of course practically exemplified in the conceptual structure of Capital itself. But it is also stated, as a matter of theory and method, in the “1857 Introduction,” which contains a thorough critique of “identity theory” and begins to sketch out a Marxist alternative—a theory of articulations between relations which are in no sense immediately corresponding. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 508

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘theory of articulations’ — the concept Hall builds his own cultural theory on, where relations connect non-correspondingly.
• QUESTION: What precisely does Hall mean by ‘articulation’ here, and how does it differ from mere conjunction? Worth chasing in Hall’s later works.