agency
Agency, which can be thought of as conscious actions, intervenes in systems by disrupting or transforming patterns and relationships.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
Agency exists as a way of life, a reiterative activity of opening or foreclosing different possibilities of materialization of matter, not as a relation of push and pull aimed at imposing force on a mass. We are entangled with, constituted and transformed by the very processes we aim to transform.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
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