Boat Stories
Last year, I discovered Ursula LeGuin’s fascinating talk, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, (transcript) by way of Donna Haraway’s equally interesting talk Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene. Both have been nagging at me for a year now.
Last year, I discovered Ursula LeGuin’s fascinating talk, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction , ( transcript ) by way of Donna Haraway’s equally interesting talk Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene . Both have been nagging at me for a year now. Discuss with vgr_zirp → The theory, building on the significance of containers (bags, baskets) to early humans -- the default human here is female of course -- in forager societies, offers a model of narrative as a "carrier bag" of community context and its evolution. It is a model that stands in radical opposition to the hero's journey model of narra
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