Foucault's complications for the study of agency - why I am reading Ian Hacking on dynamic nominalism

The word "agent" can be applied at a range of scales. You might use it to describe individual biological cells, human beings (made up of cells), or corporations (made up of human beings). If you think there might be a theory of agency that can apply at all these scales, you might describe that theory as hierarchical or scale-free . This blog post is not directly about those approaches, which are…