HKW Berlin

What if the primary inventions of humanity were not the hero's spear, but a basket of wild oats, a bundle of medicine, a story? In "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" (1986), Ursula K. Le Guin outlines a feminist history of technology that places collective sustenance at its center and recognizes in the carrying bags of gatherers tools for telling strangely realistic fictions. New texts and images respond to Le Guin's narrative practice of world-making through collecting and preserving.