Carrier Bag Fiction [en]
DNA #6
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Sarah Shin/Mathias Zeiske/Season Butler/Federico Campagna/Dorothee Elmiger/Ursula K. Le Guin/Enis Maci/Nisha Ramayya/Sin Wai Kin fka Victoria Sin/Jenna Sutela/Anna Tsing/Himali Singh Soin

96 pp.

with black-white and colour illustrations

perfect bound softcover

Leipzig June, 2021
ISBN: 9783959054638
Edition Number: 1

Width: 15 cm
Length: 23 cm

Language(s): English

Editor
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Sarah Shin, Mathias Zeiske

Author
Season Butler, Federico Campagna, Dorothee Elmiger, Ursula K. Le Guin, Enis Maci, Nisha Ramayya, Sin Wai Kin fka Victoria Sin, Jenna Sutela, Anna Tsing, Himali Singh Soin

Designer
Malin Gewinner, Hannes Drißner, Markus Dreßen

Design Concept
Olaf Nicolai, Malin Gewinner, Hannes Drißner

Contributor
Sophia Al-Maria, Laurel Halo

Artist
Anna Haifisch

What if humanity’s primary inventions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. New writings and images respond to Le Guin’s narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding.