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Modern institutions behave as if humans are sovereign choosers. This essay argues that "agency'' is not a discovered fact but a load-bearing fiction required by Enlightenment modernity to operate courts, markets, and liberal politics. Beginning from lived coercion rather than seminar metaphysics, the essay reframes agency as differential responsiveness shaped by material, temporal, relational, epistemic, somatic, and juridical conditions. A decolonial survey demonstrates that non-Western and subaltern traditions have long treated selfhood as relational, processual, or illusory, convergingβ¦
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