ABSTRACT

We need to hold onto the idea that the agent – the ‘actor’ or the ‘actornetwork’ is an agent, a center, a planner, a designer, only to the extent that matters are also decentered, unplanned, undesigned. To put it more strongly, we need to understand that to make a center is to generate and to be generated by a noncenter, a distribution of the conditions of possibility that is both present and not present.