Unsaying The Trouble With Agency Agency Implies An Agent That Is Doing Something. If There Is No Agent, There Can Be No Agency StillJustJames 26 Aug 2018 — 6 min read Original art showing THE SELF-OPERATING NAPKIN by Rube Goldberg from the regular series The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K. (Courtesy of Heritage Auctions. Originally published in Collier’s Weekly, September 26 1931)