ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how answers to the issues raised by automation for our ideologies about language and communication might be arrived at. Posthumanism takes seriously some of the key issues that arise when trying to understand the role of automation: agency cannot simply be presumed to be the province of human participants, and greater recognition needs to be given to the presence and participation of nonhuman interactants. The chapter ends by emphasizing that agency is not only ‘unlocalizable’; it is also distributed across assemblages of both humans and things.
