"Ursula K. Le Guin taught me the carrier bag theory of storytelling and naturalcultural history. Her theories, her stories, are capacious bags for collecting, carrying, and telling the stuff of living. ‘A leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a box a container. A holder. A recipient.’ So much of earth history has been told in the thrall of the fantasy of the first beautiful words and weapons, of the fist beautiful weapons as words and vice versa. Tool, weapon, word: that is the word made flesh in the image of the sky god; that is the Anthropos. In a tragic story with only one real actor, one real world-maker, the hero, this is the Man-making tale of the hunter on a quest to kill and bring back the terrible bounty… The last thing the hero wants to know is that his beautiful words and weapons will be worthless without a bag, a container, a net."
by Donna J. Haraway, “Tentacular Thinking,” Staying with the Trouble (via m-l-rio)
