“For we ourselves, just like Neanderthals, sparrows, mushrooms, and dirt, have never done anything else than act amidst the bustle of other actants, compressing and resisting them, or giving way beneath their blows.”
Throughout this text, the writer seems to bridge the gap between humans and– well, everything else that is literally not the homo-sapien, in terms that humans are, in fact, mere actants. This begs the question of what is the actor? If everything is the effect and affected, what is the cause? Does every tangible thing (and maybe intangible thing) act as both the cause and effect, the actor and the actant?