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The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

film

This essay encourages us to rethink what our most important technologies and stories are: could it be those that help us care, carry and hold complexity?

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Living tomorrow. No. 145

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1969
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Science fiction: towards the twentieth century

United Kingdom, 1978
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Imagine a World...

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I seem to be a verb (TEFC)

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One voice in the cosmic fugue

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McLuhan's wake

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Technology

1997
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Cyberpunk

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr: a self portrait

United States, 1975
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William S. Burroughs: commissioner of sewers

Germany, 1986
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Mountains, materials and technology

United Kingdom, 1994
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The Runaway Brain

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Iran, Islamic Republic of, 1996
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In search of myself

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Shelter (USA)

United States, 1937
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