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Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-16 [Final Issue]

Life & Notes2010.01.16
Notes from Today’s Xindao Salon, 10-01-16 [Final Issue]
At exactly 9 o’clock, after taking our seats, in order to let the waiter notice that there were people in the non-smoking area, I pressed the order button first. Not long after, a waiter poked his head in and looked around, then brought in a glass of water. But after that there was no further movement; not until 9:41 did classmate Bai arrive, and I had no choice but to call the waiter over to place the order, otherwise who knows how long it would have taken before he remembered me…… Classmate Bai sat there for a whole morning, leafing through the *Introduction to Phenomenology* I had brought, and also…
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2010年1月16日
Has the Development of the Internet Done More Harm Than Good to Literature?

Culture & Public Commentary2009.10.16
Has the Development of the Internet Done More Harm Than Good to Literature?
Recently my blog updates have nearly ground to a halt; next time I should make a point of reflecting on that. This time I’ll just casually write down the associations sparked by this title, and try to recover my feel for writing~ This title is one of the debate topics in the freshman cup debate contest that our department’s undergraduates will be taking part in this time, and I, in my role as “adviser,” was also honored to be consulted, so I suppose I should at least give some kind of answer. Seeing this topic, I first thought of a few articles I wrote before. One of them was a…
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2009年10月16日
A Cultural History, Technological History, and Intellectual History of Bathing

AI & the Future of Technology2009.07.31
A Cultural History, Technological History, and Intellectual History of Bathing
Now there are many people, especially urban residents, for whom bathing has become an indispensable part of daily life. Some people can scarcely imagine going three or five days in a row without bathing, let alone several months; to speak of people who do not bathe for months sounds almost like talking about aliens. Various things, once they become part of everyday life, are endowed with one or another sort of legitimacy, and thus become things that ought to be. Bathing, for example, is closely linked to the concept of “hygiene”: on the one hand, bathing is a natural thing—after all, isn’t bathing the expression of the “desire for cleanliness”…
book reading culture China technology
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2009年7月31日
Solar Eclipse and Ritual

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2009.07.01
Solar Eclipse and Ritual
When the ruler’s conduct is irregular, and the dukes and ministers are unvirtuous, when the Yi and the Di are strong and invade, and all affairs are thrown into confusion, then the sun is eclipsed.——《Spring and Autumn Wei: Gan Jing Fu》 When the ruler indulges himself and does not follow the ancients, when he acts against Heaven and brutalizes things, calamity arises and then the sun is eclipsed.——《Spring and Autumn Wei: Yundou Shu》 When the ruler’s joy and anger are irregular, when he lightly kills the innocent, executes the guiltless, disrespects Heaven and Earth, and disregards ghosts and spirits, then the sun is eclipsed.——《Liyun Wei: Dou Weiyi》 When the…
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2009年7月1日
A Supplement to “Poetry Is the Most Originary Rationality”:

Culture & Public Commentary2009.06.12
A Supplement to “Poetry Is the Most Originary Rationality”:
Previously, in the essay “Philosophy and Poetry,” I mentioned this line. I’ve forgotten the exact source of this formulation; it was probably from Heidegger, or perhaps from my own understanding of Heidegger. Of course, no matter what Heidegger said, since I brought up this line, I always have my own set of thoughts about it. Under Unic’s questioning I gave some explanations; since it came to more than a thousand characters, I’m整理ing it here on the blog: Of course, this is a vague way of putting it. The key is to look at what “源始” means. If reason is the use of concepts, then what kind of use is the…
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2009年6月12日
The Responsibility of the Communicator

Culture & Public Commentary2009.05.22
The Responsibility of the Communicator
Today, while riding my bike in the rain on the 21st, as usual my thoughts drifted about, and I connected up a few threads I had recently run into, and so I wrote this essay. As for my attitude toward plagiarism and literary theft, I already made it clear in my undergraduate post “Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism and Theft.” Now that I compare my own writing to excrement, that too signals my attitude that I am not afraid of plagiarism. And yet, of course, I have always held a deep contempt for paper plagiarism. In a certain sense, plagiarism or theft in academic papers is, in my…
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2009年5月22日
On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy

Philosophy & Thought2009.03.11
On Women Philosophers and the Top-Bottom Dichotomy
Here are some of the things I was forced to say in my comments after “I Won’t Date in a Café”; since I’ve written them down, they’re now black on white, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Given that this is no small topic, I’m setting aside a new post here for the archive. Later, my classmate Chern, who is even more evil than I am, said that mine was a “female philosopher cultivation plan.” That’s an interesting title, but it’s too liable to cause misunderstanding. My conspiracy is extremely complex: it is neither to seduce mm, nor to cultivate female philosophers, nor even to find an mm…
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2009年3月11日
Introduction to the Dialogues of Xindao

Life & Notes2009.03.07
Introduction to the Dialogues of Xindao
I haven’t updated the blog much these past several times. On the one hand, it’s because lately I’ve been busy with all sorts of miscellaneous things and haven’t had any mental free time; on the other hand, because some time ago I suddenly had the urge to write in a “dialogue” form, but got stuck halfway through. Only today did I finally rekindle the urge to write, and I’ve now finished the previously stuck draft of the No. 〇 piece, but I still have no motivation to write the first piece (though I already have the title). According to my plan, all of these “dialogues” will be written by me…
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2009年3月7日
zz Liu Suli: European Cafés—The Cradle of the Birth of Modern Society

Culture & Public Commentary2009.02.21
zz Liu Suli: European Cafés—The Cradle of the Birth of Modern Society
The Cradle of Modern Society http://dzb.sznews.com/szwb/content/2007-11/05/content_1628691.htm ■ Liu Suli (book reviewer, founder of Wangshang Bookstore, Beijing) *Looking at Europe from the Café*, by Yu Zemin, published by Shandong Pictorial Publishing House in October 2007. If you take the book in your hand and regard it only as a guide map to cafés, then you have made a 50 percent mistake; if you take it as an ordinary book for leisure and diversion, then you have made a further 25 percent mistake. To each his own. What I read in the book was this: the European café—the cradle of the birth of modern society. I do not need to repeat all…
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2009年2月21日
Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007

Culture & Public Commentary2009.02.14
Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007
Preface, page2 The story of the café needs to be traced back through history, and the17th and18th centuries play the leading roles. Since the first café appeared in London, over the course of this hundred years, the café has become an omnipresent feature of urban life, a necessary venue for social intercourse, gossip, discussion, and debate. It was the café that taught men a new way of building a hybrid kind of friendship, into which they poured business ventures, severe criticism, scientific discussion, political clubs, and all sorts of other contents. As the chapters of this book’s main text will explain, the early cafés were by no means limited…
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2009年2月14日