The carrier bag theory of fiction

Inget omslag — Ursula K.Le Guin: The carrier bag theory of fiction (Hardcover, 2019, Ignota Books)

42 sivua : kuvitettu ; 16 cm, 42 sidor

På English

Publicerades 2019 av Ignota Books.

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction proposes a new story of evolution by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: "before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home." Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero's long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors' greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars. This influential essay …

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction proposes a new story of evolution by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: "before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home." Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero's long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors' greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars. This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew.

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"It's a strange realism, but it's a strange reality."

When you finish a library book and immediately want to run out and buy it just so you can have it at hand at all times. A defense of context as not just colour but the very point? That's partly it. But it's the sort of essay that flips everything.

A leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a box a container. A holder. A recipient.

Ämnen

Fiction History and criticism.
kirjallisuus.
edistys.
teknologia.
litteratur.
framsteg.
teknologi.