The Bag of Stars: Storytelling and Technology by Ignota published on 2020-07-03T13:41:27Z How can we use storytelling as a tool to interrogate and expand our understanding of ‘fiction’ and ‘reality’? Ursula K. Le Guin’s reimagination of the humble bag or container as the first human invention hacked heroic, patriarchal narratives to tell a different story of our relationship with technology. Sophia Al-Maria, Irenosen Okojie,Tai Shani and chair Victoria Sin discuss how Le Guin’s notion of the story as a device for telling strangely realistic fictions informs their own approaches to challenging dominant myths of linear progress and apocalypse. Through their writing they explore post-patriarchal futures, time travel and cyborgian myth, and look at monstrosity and political selfhood with a cast of characters including medieval mystics Hildegard of Bingen and Theresa de Avila, shape-shifting goddesses and Britney Spears. This is a recording of a panel discussion at New Suns: A Feminist Literary Festival, held on Saturday 5 October 2019, Barbican Centre. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction By Ursula K. Le Guin is published with an Introduction by Donna Haraway and Images by Lee Bul by Ignota: https://ignota.org/products/the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction
