Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
by Ursula K. Le Guin, Donna Haraway, Lee Bul · first published 2019
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"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 o
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An alternate approach: the Carrier Bag theory of fiction by Ursula Le Guin, which argues (gently) against "the hero's desires" and the Campbellian monomyth: https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=eJj4RlFKWCoC&lpg=PA149&o...
on “What makes a character memorable?” ↗…characters are presented with a 'red thread', often in the form of a common mythology, tying them together) among several several others. This notion was critiqued decades ago, as in Ursula Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory Of Fiction [0] which itself references even earlier work that critiques this idea of a universal structure of tension/climax/resolution. 0. http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-...
on “The Shape of a Story” ↗For more context, quoting from the project page: > Riffing on Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, this presents a primordial vision of computation in which programs are written as a list of changes in the content of a bag, and programming can be done entirely without the need for textual representations.…
on “Tote: A browser uxn emulator – primordial computation with symbols” ↗…Blair is a great source on general, but there are so many facets to this topic here's a list that I have read or am going to read. * The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen * The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin * Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age by Ann M. Blair * Communicating with Slip Boxes: An Empirical Account by Niklas Luhmann * Akin's Laws of…
on “Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?” ↗