Agent and 'agency'
instances of 'agency' in my html documents
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John Hillman’s 2018 thesis on photography
...understanding agency as distributed, connected and networked properties...the agency of photography, namely what photography does
photography's agency is understood as an affective force that configures a relational network of people, places and things
...within a digital culture, agency is governed by computer algorithms... ==> new forms of perception
The 'agency' in MY photographs passes through the Imagination, I think. A matter of personal style? Certainly not easily engage with the AI sense of 'agency', which seems entangled with self-contained power and independent decision-making capability.
An 'agent' is empowered and equipped to ACT on ones behalf, to execute one's instructions, to be a function/functionary, to anti/represent one's interests. To engage in transaction
William Gibson Agency
...a laminar agent ...a cross-platform, individually user-based, autonomous avatar ...kind of a digital mini-self, able to fill in when the user can't be online