DNA #6
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.
96 pp. with black-white and colour illustrations, perfect bound softcover
Leipzig June, 2021
ISBN: 9783959054638
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
