Edited by Sarah Shin & Mathias Zeiske

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.

With 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 Lowenhaupt Tsing/Himali Singh Soin.