# Actor-network theory > ANT sees agency as a distributed achievement, emerging from associations between human and non-human entities (the actor-network). > > – [Assemblage thinking and actor‐network theory: conjunctions, disjunctions, cross‐fertilisations](https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12117) [[Post-structuralism]]?