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. [publisher's note]

With contributions by Sophia Al-Maria, Laurel Halo, 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, Anna Haifisch.

DNA / The New Alphabet series #6