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Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?

Culture & Public Commentary2018.12.14
Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?
It has also been posted on Jiemian; for reposting, please contact Jiemian~ When it was published, the title was changed somewhat clickbaity, becoming “It Is Hard for a Screen Alone to Change the Fate of Education; Bullet Chat May Be Able To.” In fact, that sentence is not quite accurate. What I meant was that there may be many ways to change the fate of education, and this screen may not be the right direction. But since we’re dealing with mass media, I’m willing to accept a bit of clickbait in the title; the content itself was not changed much. When it was published, I deleted a middle section, “The…
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2018年12月14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
From Technical Code to Virtue Ethics: Table or Div? — Starting from the Ministry of Railways Ticketing Website

AI & the Future of Technology2012.01.05
From Technical Code to Virtue Ethics: Table or Div? — Starting from the Ministry of Railways Ticketing Website
The Ministry of Railways has finally rolled out an online ticketing system, and that alone is worth encouraging. Of course, it is debatable whether moving the advance-sale period for online tickets up by two days is a good idea; for migrant workers and other vulnerable groups who lack access to the internet, this is not very fair. I have already booked train tickets on this website three times (the first two times were round trips to the Winter Solstice conference), and each time I ran into one problem or another. Even when the Winter Solstice conference was still very much in the off-season for train tickets, I still encountered network…
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2012年1月5日
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism

Philosophy & Thought2007.06.02
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism
The paper I wrote on philosophy of technology before was too rushed—I only decided to switch from Heidegger to Feenberg at two in the morning on Tuesday, spent all of Tuesday and Wednesday reading, and didn’t finish the paper until 6 a.m. on Thursday morning… In fact, many places could still have been developed further. On the question of plural rationality, the example Feenberg gives is a very good one— In the paper I wrote: Here, Feenberg agrees with historicism and social constructivism in holding that not only the content of rational beliefs, but also the principles and forms of reason itself, are historical and culturally plural. In order to…
philosophy culture sociology pluralism
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2007年6月2日
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.31
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology
The Third Path That Can Be Chosen—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology Introduction American philosopher of technology Andrew Feenberg is a representative of contemporary Western Marxist philosophy of technology. His critical theory of technology seeks to open up a “third path” in philosophy of technology—Feenberg hopes to carve out a new route between the traditional optimism and pessimism about technology, inheriting the critique and reflection on modern technology found in the Frankfurt School, Heidegger, Ellul, and other pessimists, while also retaining something of the utopian ideal found in Marx and in theorists of technology as a tool. Feenberg believes that he will “preserve the strengths of both theories while…
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2007年5月31日
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)

Philosophy & Thought2007.05.31
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)
As usual, let me first post a rough draft of the essay. I had originally planned to write about Heidegger, but Heidegger’s articles are really too ethereal; when I read them, it’s all clouds and fog, impossible to get a grip on… Among the philosophy of technology thinkers discussed so far, aside from Marx, Feenberg is still the one most to my taste, though Ellul and Mumford are also worthy of respect. [US]Andrew Feenberg: Critique of Technology, translated by Han Lianqing and Cao Guanfǎ, Peking University Press,2005 Preface, p. 1, v, (first sentence) Must humanity submit to the harsh logic of machines? Or can technology be fundamentally redesigned so that…
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2007年5月31日