Bags, excesses, re-enchantments
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Abstract
In 1988, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a short essay on fiction, reflecting on bags and receptacles as mundane, everyday objects capable of carrying something inside and thereby allowing us to construct stories. For this author, collecting, transporting, containing, and caring were figures that could inspire alternative narratives to the heroic tales of battles, deaths, and victories. Her proposal was, and continues to be, an open question about what deserves to be narrated and how to do so. Almost 40 years after that text was published, I find myself surrounded by countless real, concrete bags, hidden and stashed away in corners of my home. And so, thinking along with Jane Bennett and her proposals to re enchant ourselves with vibrant matter, I wonder: what happens to stories that focus on care when a container object is forgotten and falls into disuse? This short essay is an attempt to contemplate the silence of stories that were left on pause, a modest response to a brief and grand theory, in times of excess and catastrophe.
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bags, Ursula K. Le Guin, excess, re-enchantment
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