《S/Z》是一本标志性的理论著作，它既是罗兰·巴特文学思想的一次发展，也是所谓的结构主义向后结构主义转变的一个里程碑。而这所谓的标志性的里程碑，就是罗兰·巴特从过去那种单纯地运用符号学和结构主义叙事学的相关语言及文学理论，把文学作品当作一个完整的对象，当作一个具有相对独立性的和总体性的精神现象来看待的指导思想，转变成了把文学作品看成是一种文本，一种文本的动态构形过程，更多地呈现为片断性、发散性和游戏性特征的解构观念，文本不仅是一种特有的游戏对象，而且它自身就处于游戏活动之中。这次罗兰·巴特在基本文学思想观念上的著名转变，已经被写进了无数的文学理论教科书里。

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ‘before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.’ Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero’s long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors’ greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars. This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew. With a new introduction by Donna Haraway, the eminent cyberfeminist, author of the revolutionary A Cyborg Manifesto and most recently, Staying with the Trouble and Manifestly Haraway. With images by Lee Bul, a leading South Korean feminist artist who had a retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery in 2018.