Re-Thinking Agency: Non-Anthropocentric Approaches
Re-Thinking Agency: Non-Anthropocentric Approaches 3–5 February 2022 (Deadline for abstract submission: 15 November 2021) University of Warsaw and via Zoom worldwide
Keynote lecture: Karen Barad (University of California, Santa Cruz)
A common-sensical definition of agency is “the ability to act in a given environment”. This definition, however, requires clarification of what “acting”, “ability”, and even “environment” are. Consequently, the definition suggests a set of questions that should be probed further. For a long time, acting and agency were seen as components of a metaphysically and religiously founded patriarchal order and ...