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For several days in August 2003, the electrical power grid failed in North America, thus revealing itself as a natural-technological materiality with a mind (or at least a life) of its own. My paper seeks to articulate this peculiar kind of agency, a term usually restricted to descriptions of intentional, human acts. What happens to the idea of an agent once materiality is figured less as a 'social construction' and more as an actor? What happensto the notion of agency once humans are assessed as members of assemblages of persons/places/things? Can we imagine a kind of agency attached to collectives of humans and nonhumans? How does such agency compare to more familiar images like that of the willed intentioality of person, the disciplinary power of culture, or the automatism of natural processes? Finally, how does recognition of the nonhuman and non-individuated dimensions of agency alter established notions of moral responsibility and political accountability? |
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| Bennett, Jane. "The Agency of Assemblages" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59183_index.html> |
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| Bennett, J. , 2004-09-02 "The Agency of Assemblages" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p59183_index.html |
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Abstract: For several days in August 2003, the electrical power grid failed in North America, thus revealing itself as a natural-technological materiality with a mind (or at least a life) of its own. My paper seeks to articulate this peculiar kind of agency, a term usually restricted to descriptions of intentional, human acts. What happens to the idea of an agent once materiality is figured less as a 'social construction' and more as an actor? What happensto the notion of agency once humans are assessed as members of assemblages of persons/places/things? Can we imagine a kind of agency attached to collectives of humans and nonhumans? How does such agency compare to more familiar images like that of the willed intentioality of person, the disciplinary power of culture, or the automatism of natural processes? Finally, how does recognition of the nonhuman and non-individuated dimensions of agency alter established notions of moral responsibility and political accountability? |
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| 1 * The Agency of Assemblages Jane Bennett August 2004 The Agency of Assemblages One thing that "globalization" names at least for the social scientist is the sense that the relevant theater of operations has expanded greatly. Earth is no longer only a category of ecology or geology but has become a political unit the whole in which the parts (e.g. finance capital CO2 emissions refugees viruses pirated dvd's ozone human rights weapons of mass destruction) now circulate. There |
| 32 39. Other readings suggest that Arendt especially given her notion of "action " may be even more amenable to a distributive notion of agency than I suggest. My thanks to Paul Saurette for this point. 40. I am grateful to George Shulman and Bonnie Honig for raising this issue to me. 41. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari A Thousand Plateaus (Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press 1986) 313. 42.Francois Jullien The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of |
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