We also read relations of animal and inorganic bodies as producing identities and even cultures, just not to the same extent that we do human bodies. Therefore, it is not a matter of agency or lack of agency. The only question is to what degree the body in question is an agent and in what context or set of relations we choose to read that body as having agency. The production of identity follows the same fundamental principles as the production of texts . It is not only both political and social, but predominantly intertextual.
All texts are potential agents.
They have the potential to interact with bodies and produce identities. In a modernist sense the term human either denotes the body or the individual. The most important aspect of identity terms is , of course, that they necessarily include bodies.