The human and the nonhuman bleed into each other as human intentions are animated by powerfully purposeless forces and purposeless processes like natural selection bear the emergence of order and direction...Agency is always only borrowed and a specifically human agency can be borrowed only from a complex of nonhuman objects.  Everything human is organized around an unavoidable detour through the nonhuman because everything human is composed of and dependent upon nothing else. 

..every agent is a machine that dissembles the multitude from whom its strength is borrowed.  An agent is an object that speaks on behalf of others fromt he sake of itself.  But such agency is always a two edged sword because there is no simple way to determine when the agent is ventriloquizing the multitude and when the multitude is ventriloquizing the agent.  We're not likely to go wrong if we say taht agency is always both.

In an object-oriented theology, grace is the concurrently imposed and enabling strength that emerges in the give and take of agency.  Grace shows up in the way that agency simultaneously endows an object with and divests it of itself.  Agency ist he grace of acting for oneself on another's behalf.  Or, agency is the grace of acting for another on one's own behalf.


Adam S. Miller, Speculative Grace, pgs. 57-58