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Carrier Bag
Theory of fiction
Ursula K. le guin
The Vuvalini, the Many
Mothers, and their
longing for shows,
for stories.
“Shows. Everyone in the
old world had a show.”
Not just the bottle of gin or wine, but the bottle in its older
sense of container in general, a thing that holds
something else. (150)
Where is that wonderful, big, long, hard thing, a bone, I believe,
that the Ape Man first bashed somebody with in the movie and
then, grunting with ecstasy at having achieved the first proper
Le guin
[L]ong before the useful knife and ax; right along with the
indispensable whacker, grinder, and digger—[...]—with or
before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool
that brings energy home. It makes sense to me. (151)
Le guin
In an earlier scene,
bullets are referred to
as “anti-seeds”: “plant
one and watch the
thing die.”
Carrier Bag
Theory of Research reports
The look and feel of
Unknown Fields’ projects
and productions resonates
with Le Guin, and they
point toward what a
“Carrier Bag Theory of
Reports” might be.
“Here we are both
visionaries and reporters,
part documentarians and
part science fiction
soothsayers as the
otherworldly sites we
encounter afford us a
distanced viewpoint from
which to survey the
consequences of emerging
environmental and
technological scenarios."
Carrier Bag
Theory of fiction
Ursula K. le guin