Author: 胡翌霖

Revised the Blog’s Copyright Rules

Site Matters2012.02.28
Revised the Blog’s Copyright Rules
An exception clause has been added for articles published in print media; see: https://yilinhut.net/about/published The essence of Suixuan’s copyright policy is this: in addition to being allowed to reprint and quote it as one would treat an ordinary academic work, one may also freely adapt and distribute it. According to the copyright terms, adaptations must credit both the original author and the adapter, but there is no need to cite line by line; it is enough simply to indicate something like “originally written by Guci, adapted by Zhang San.” At the same time, such adapted versions must also abide by the same terms—that is, they too must allow others to…
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2012年2月28日
Notes on Being and Time, Part I: The Questioning Path That Illuminates the Light

Philosophy & Thought2012.02.24
Notes on Being and Time, Part I: The Questioning Path That Illuminates the Light
Last year, when our reading group read *Being and Time*, I had already thought of writing reading notes as we went along. But at the time I talked quite a lot while reading, so I more or less used up my urge to express myself on the spot; when I got home, I was too lazy to write it all out again, and in the end I never managed to do it. This semester, as we read *Being and Time* again in the Wumen discussion seminar, maybe I can take the opportunity to make up those notes. The introductory part of *Being and Time* is very important, but also not…
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2012年2月24日
Black Bear and Virtue Ethics

Culture & Public Commentary2012.02.23
Black Bear and Virtue Ethics
The black bear issue has been blazing hot lately, so I’ll throw in my two cents as well~ Simply put, morally speaking, I oppose live bear bile extraction. As for whether Genuizhang should be allowed to go public, I think that’s another matter; I’m not familiar with the relevant legal framework. Why oppose live bear bile extraction? The usual arguments tend to focus on whether the bears are in pain, but I think that is actually a secondary issue. If the bears were injected with some kind of drug so that they not only felt no pain, but even became addicted to bile extraction, would that make everything okay? Utilitarianism,…
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2012年2月23日
The Strong Program of Media History

AI & the Future of Technology2012.02.17
The Strong Program of Media History
Today’s proposal defense went quite smoothly~ Thanks to all the professors for taking such good care of me~ The professors also offered quite a few suggestions, which helped me sort out the threads more clearly. Let me add a few points here. First of all, my dissertation is of course situated within the academic circles of history of science and philosophy of technology, so I am not hoping to turn those scholars in the field of communication studies who have embraced media ecology toward the direction of history of technology. Media ecology can of course take root and flourish within communication studies, but what I am stressing is that it…
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2012年2月17日
Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”

Philosophy & Thought2012.02.03
Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”
Stirred by the Fang Yaohan incident, I wrote three articles in a row, which is already quite enough to have gotten my money’s worth. Since Han Han has also announced that he is stopping writing and not talking about it anymore, I may as well stop here too. So this article continues from the earlier piece “The Kingly Way”; everyone can skip the previous three articles, and we can continue talking about “morality.” We say that the kingly way is the path to supreme goodness, and supreme goodness is nothing other than “the best life.” But in the traditional sense, for a ruler, the kingly way merely provides one of…
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2012年2月3日
Bottom-Up Reform

Culture & Public Commentary2012.02.02
Bottom-Up Reform
During the “onlookers biting Han” incident (see my previous two articles), I took the opportunity to skim through the legendary “Han Three Essays.” I have to say, Han Han really is better suited to snark than to building arguments… But on the basic attitude toward these three big concepts, I completely support Han Han: oppose revolution, be cautiously skeptical of democracy, and emphasize and fight for freedom. Why am I “anti-revolutionary”? In middle school, I did indeed hold some sort of “quality theory” position: the civic quality of the Chinese people was still far too low, there was a lack of self-discipline, and once things got chaotic they would be…
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2012年2月2日
A Second Discussion of Fang Yaohan: Wild Animals and Freedom of Speech

Culture & Public Commentary2012.02.01
A Second Discussion of Fang Yaohan: Wild Animals and Freedom of Speech
Some people say the Han Han affair is yet another diversion of public attention: there are so many major matters concerning the national economy and people’s livelihoods worth following, yet internet users are gathered around such a boring little incident. In my view, although Fang Jiaozhu’s performance was boring, paying attention to this event is by no means unimportant. Because for our present environment, this question is no less secondary than any other: what exactly is freedom of speech? Many people will say that even if Fang Zhouzi said something wrong, he should not be punished by law, because to protect freedom of speech, one cannot punish someone for their…
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2012年2月1日
About Fang Yaohan

Culture & Public Commentary2012.01.31
About Fang Yaohan
I had long since gotten too lazy to care about Fang Zhouzi’s business, but this time, riding on Han Han’s fame, I had no choice but to take a look at Fang Zhouzi’s disgraceful performance as well. My sins, my sins…… Since I’ve already joined the crowd, I might as well jot down a few things while I’m at it~ Of course, I don’t need to take a side here; I believe the readers of my blog are absolutely incapable of thinking I would support Fang Zhouzi. In my view, Han Han and Fang Zhouzi simply do not have a reciprocal “vs.” relationship at all. Fang Zhouzi is nothing but…
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2012年1月31日
“The Kingly Way” — The Road to the Supreme Good

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2012.01.26
“The Kingly Way” — The Road to the Supreme Good
You can read this article as a continuation of this earlier one: Freedom vs. Equality—I Am a Right-Wing Socialist In that essay I expressed a certain resistance to “equality”: equality in the sense of a condition for freedom, or equality as the rules that must be observed for the game of competition to unfold—those senses of equality I certainly support. But equality for equality’s sake, taking equality as a principle, is not something I agree with. So if one does not champion equality, must one necessarily tolerate “inequality”? Not necessarily. One reason for opposing “equality” is that it is an overly abstract concept; in fact, equality always requires a standard…
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2012年1月26日
Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak

AI & the Future of Technology2012.01.21
Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak
Kodak has filed for bankruptcy protection. Although it has not yet truly gone bankrupt and still hopes to rise again, the chances are probably slim. Nokia’s situation is in some ways similar to Kodak’s. Both were old firms that dominated the market for a century, and both were undone by the very new technologies they themselves helped develop, weighed down by the burden of their own success. Kodak did not fail to try to adapt to the new trend, but it did not succeed; Nokia is now placing its bet on Windows Phone, hoping to make a desperate comeback with Microsoft’s support. Is there any chance that, by self-amputating all…
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2012年1月21日