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The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Printed: 25.09.19
Dimensions: 90x120mm
Cover stock: Clairefontaine Trophee (ivory) 120gsm
Text stock: Clairefontaine Trophee (ivory) 120gsm
Binding: Staple bound
Pages: 16pp

Ursula K. Le Guin's short essay appears in a compilation called Dancing at the Edge of the World, which I've found impossible to find online through the usual pirate libraries such as Library Genesis, aaaaaarg.fail and Monoskop. Perhaps this points to a gender bias in what is perceived as knowledge (Le Guin was a woman wrote mostly science-fiction)? In lieu of not being able to find the compilation, I decided to print this book in a very small size (90x120mm) and retain the annotations from the PDF I found. I digitised them by making them into vectors, and printed the text and annotations in green. In this way I wanted to speculate on what would happen when a reader was confronted with annotations that seemed to be part of the source, not a para-text added after publication.

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  Front cover

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  Digitised annotations

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  Back cover with bootleg acknowledgement