Suixuan

SELECTED

Selected

Some subjects I have kept writing about for over a decade. Each series collects only the selected essays, so you can start from the beginning.

MASTERWORKS

Masterworks

The essays that best represent Suixuan in each topic — the quickest way to get to know this blog.

Life & Notes

  1. Philosophy of the Starry Sky
  2. Silent Wonder
  3. Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
  4. Can This Really Count as a General History? — The Publication of Extension of Man: A General History of Technology
  5. Heavenly Endowment
  6. The Street Is Not a Tourist Attraction—Afterword to I, My Singapore, My Street, My Walks

History of Science & Scholarship

  1. History of Science as a Nature Reserve—A Darwinian View of Science
  2. Obsolete Wisdom (Preface to Fifteen Lectures on the General History of Science)
  3. What, Exactly, Is the Scientific Revolution?
  4. On the Industrial Revolution (I): Watt’s Kettle: Myth and Reality
  5. Printing, Natural History, and the Birth of Modern Science
  6. The Biography of Objects: Methods and Significance in the History of Scientific Instruments
  7. The Rationality of Whig History and the Possibility of an Anti-Whig Approach

Culture & Public Commentary

  1. Arendt Reading Notes
  2. Do the People Have the Right to Be Ignorant? — With a Discussion of Enlightenment and Unconcealment
  3. Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System
  4. In Praise of “Rumors”
  5. From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle
  6. Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?
  7. “Leisure” as “Responsibility” — Why Must We Critique Capitalism?

Philosophy & Thought

  1. Personality Philosophy vs. Propositional Philosophy: On the Inevitability of the Decline of Continental Philosophy and the Immortality of Its Significance
  2. A Loose Phenomenological Discussion of “Artificial Intelligence”
  3. 媒介史作为先验哲学
  4. Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?
  5. From “Whether There Is a Mind” to “How to Establish the Mind” — The Broader Question of Heart-Mind Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  6. The Path to “Authenticity”—On the Intent of Being and Time
  7. The Definition of “Technology” — A Means to an End, or Something That Can Be Learned?

AI & the Future of Technology

  1. Why Fear Artificial Intelligence? — Some Musings on AlphaGo
  2. Unemployment or Liberation? Artificial Intelligence’s Dual Revolution
  3. If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
  4. In the Digital Age, How Do We Win the “Battle to Defend Childhood”
  5. Distribution According to Enjoyment: How to Break the Logic of Involution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  6. Will Digital Musk and Digital Musk Become Friends?

Web3 & Cypherpunks

  1. Bitcoin: The Nature of Money
  2. Bitcoin: The Disappearance of the State
  3. From BTC to NFT: From Wealth to Power
  4. Why PoS Ethereum Cannot Become a Base Currency
  5. Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3
  6. The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)

Teaching & Courses

  1. On Writing Papers — Summary of the “Introduction to Academic Research” Course
  2. On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)
  3. Final Exam Paper for General History of Technology
  4. What Kind of Assignment Does the Teacher Hope to See? — Reflections on Assigning the “General History of Technology” Assignment
  5. Lecture Notes on the General History of Science (Introduction)
  6. From Deep to Shallow—Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course

Site Matters

  1. Let me explain why this place is called “Suixuan”~
  2. Suixuan’s Second Anniversary Selected Essays
  3. On CC Licenses
  4. My blog keeps crashing, and I have had enough — I am going to overhaul it completely. While I troubleshoot, the blog may look rather ugly.