Agentifying the body algorithmic: digital entrepreneurial agency and accountability gaps

This chapter explores the implications of the distribution of entrepreneurial agency across a key set of non-human actors of particular importance to the contemporary digital era: algorithms, and the systems of artificial intelligence they drive. Through a novel transdisciplinary theoretical approach that blends critical anti-racist sociology, abolitionist feminist science and technology studies, intersectional feminism and realist methodology, it conceptualises the accountability gaps that arise as algorithmic agents are given rights without commensurate obligations. In so doing, it develops a robust critique of algorithmic agency in the context of digital entrepreneurial activity.