ursula k. le guin's carrier bag theory of fiction argues that the fundamental human technology is not the spear, heroic, extractive, and pointed, but the bag, gathering, holding, and sustaining. i think of my whole practice through this lens.

digital garden is a carrier bag. anarchive is a carrier bag. rssprint generates carrier bags from the open web. media-log is a carrier bag. the impulse to gather and hold is prior to the impulse to argue and convince.

the carrier bag does not demand resolution. it fills. it is useful while it fills. it can be put down and picked up again. it does not demand a climax.