Interesting article by Cameron Tonkinwise on “The Practically Living Weight of Convenient Things:”

Some metaphors eventually ‘take’ and solidify into intuited experiences of things that they previously only sought to creatively qualify. But this process need not only be a slow evolution. If I suspend disbelief in the patterns of light on the wall of cinema, I  will experience those images as people in a story, experiences that will have agency over my mood. I want to argue that ‘things have agency’ functions in this same way; we let things have agency, but as a result, our subsequent experience of those things is of them having a certain type of agency.