An Inter-Enactive Approach to Agency: Participatory Sense-Making, Dynamics, and Sociality
Steve Torrance
Tom Froese
ABSTRACT
An inter-enactive approach to agency holds that the behaviour of agents in a social situation unfolds not only according to their individual abilities and goals, but also according to the conditions and constraints imposed by the autonomous dynamics of the interaction process itself. We illustrate this position with examples drawn from phenomenological observations and dynamical systems models. On the basis of these examples we discuss some of the implications of this inter-enactive approach to agency for our understanding of social phenomena in a broader sense, and how the inter- enactive account provided here has to be taken alongside a theory of larger- scale social processes.