JANE BENNETT
problems. It is ultimately a matter of political judgment what is more needed today:
Should we acknowledge the distributive quality of agency in order to address the power
of human-nonhuman assemblages and to resist a politics of blame? Or should we persist
with a strategic understatement of material agency in the hopes of enhancing the account-
ability of specific humans?
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