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Ide Cyan: What's agency? Rough definitions of two possible meanings

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What's agency? Rough definitions of two possible meanings

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'''Agency''' has several meanings, some of which are more pertinent to this Wiki than others.

First, there's '''agency''' as a concept. That is, the capacity to act. To exert power. People who act are [[agent]]s; they have agency. Which, in a SFnal context, isn't quite limited to humans, but extends to other people, too. Living creatures, in general, can possess agency. ''Things'' that act may be called agents, in a way, but do not ''possess'' agency, inasmuch as they are, well, things. (See [[human agency]].)

Second, there's '''agency''' in the institutionalised sense of an organisation of agents, or, by metonymy, of the place where these agents work, or that of an organisation of agents considered in itself.

== Agencies in Fiction and Fictional Agencies ==

The Central Intelligence Agency is a United States organisation in the real world. [[Alice Sheldon]] worked for it. But it's also represented in fiction, and some notable female characters have worked for it, such as [[Sydney Bristow]].

The Trans-Temporal Agency is a fictional agency in some of [[Joanna Russ]]'s stories.

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