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“The Philosophy of Online Games”

Philosophy & Thought2008.12.09
“The Philosophy of Online Games”
For a philosophy to spread widely and be remembered by later generations, a distinctive and resounding name may well be of some help. What could my philosophy be called by others? Terms like critical philosophy, philosophy of technology, philosophy of history, and pluralism have already been overused; things like philosophy of the stars and philosophy of media also seem insufficiently precise. Suddenly it occurs to me that perhaps it could be called “network game philosophy.” The two words “network” and “game” can indicate the distinctive features and central concerns of my philosophy. Under this heading, almost all the questions of traditional philosophy—ontology, epistemology, axiology, and so on—can be developed. Moreover,…
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2008年12月9日
A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games

Culture & Public Commentary2008.08.13
A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games
The “second talk” below is even less coherent, and in fact does not really talk about “Olympics” at all. It is simply continuing to talk about “games.” But since it nevertheless arises from the same occasion as the scattered essays before and after it—namely, the holding of the Olympic Games—I still name it “Second Talk on the Olympics.” Had I not written it at this moment, it might perhaps have been filed under the “nonsense” series. However, although it stands together in the title, the folder in which it is placed on the blog has been changed. The first piece, because it focused on the cultural style of ancient Greece,…
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2008年8月13日
A Few Words on “Olympic” — “Olympic Game”

Culture & Public Commentary2008.08.08
A Few Words on “Olympic” — “Olympic Game”
I had long said I would write some articles about the Olympics, but the reason I kept putting it off was mainly that I had read far too little, whether primary or secondary sources, on ancient Greece, so I would certainly be speaking without much confidence. Recently, in a last-minute dash, I read a few introductory books; of course that does not really solve anything, but in order to get something written before the opening of the Olympics, I could only make do. Though I lack confidence, I have always had ancient Greece and the “Olympic spirit” on my mind, and I have a large heap of related thoughts. Because…
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2008年8月8日
This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”

Life & Notes2008.06.01
This Issue’s Music: Civilization IV Theme Song “Baba Yetu”
Let’s have a little game for Children’s Day~ Although I already picked a track from Civilization for a previous music post, I’ll choose one again. I originally wanted to choose the theme song of the latest expansion, Beyond the Sword, but I couldn’t find a link online, so I had to dig out the famous “Papa Boar” song instead~ Civilization IV is already close to perfect; the Warlords expansion, while adding some bricks and mortar, doesn’t change all that much, but Beyond the Sword has added some genuinely new elements. As its name suggests, Beyond the Sword focuses on elements beyond warfare, though this has long been a tradition of…
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2008年6月1日
On Feyerabend Quotations 5 (Philosophy, Science, and Language Games)

History of Science & Scholarship2008.01.26
On Feyerabend Quotations 5 (Philosophy, Science, and Language Games)
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=338 http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=339 NewStudioOldJiang Selected Quotes from Feyerabend 5 “Catastrophes in the natural environment, war, the collapse of an ethical system that has been perfected, and political revolution, too, will transform human patterns of response, including important patterns of argumentation. Such transformation may well be a completely natural process, and the only function of rational argument may perhaps lie in this fact: it increases psychic tension, and this tension is the precursor of action’s eruption and the cause of that eruption.” (Against Method, 2) “An analysis of the relation between thought and action also shows that, in the growth of our knowledge and the growth of science, the roles played by…
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2008年1月26日
[Dutch] J. Huizinga: Man the Player, 35 yuan — ☆

Culture & Public Commentary2007.10.11
[Dutch] J. Huizinga: Man the Player, 35 yuan — ☆
[Dutch]J. Huizinga: Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture, translated by Cheng Qiong, proofread by Wang Zuohong and Chen Weizheng, Guizhou Publishing Group, Guizhou People’s Publishing House, first edition January 1998, second edition August 2007, 35 yuan—☆ Often, just when I am thinking about certain topics, I can promptly find the book I want at a bookstore, and even at the new-books counter…… This book immediately came out in two editions, one of which (the one I chose) is a reprint, and the other is the latest translation by Huacheng Publishing House (the third Chinese translation), Huizinga: 2007, 9th month, first edition. I compared these two books for quite…
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2007年10月11日
This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope

Life & Notes2007.08.02
This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope
http://hyl510.googlepages.com/CivIIIAncEurope.mp3 I still haven’t played any games since the start of this summer vacation, and I’m really depressed…… The long-awaited Heroes of Might and Magic 5: Hammers of Fate still hasn’t appeared; Sword and Fairy 4, which I had preordered early on at Amazon.cn, has already been delivered to Beijing, but now I’m in Shanghai…… As for Civilization, I’ve been playing it far too much…… Today I discovered that GooglePage has been restored, and for the time being I couldn’t find a place to upload music. I noticed that there were already two background tracks from Civilization uploaded there, so I’m just casually posting one of them here. This piece…
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2007年8月2日
Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto

Life & Notes2007.01.19
Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto
Winter Break Reading Notes for 2007 Launch Manifesto I remember that in the middle of last winter break I suddenly threw myself into a spurt of effort, reading dozens of books straight through at an average pace of one book a day. Although none of them could be called especially specialized works, I did indeed feel I gained quite a lot; more importantly, I read with soaring morale and doubled confidence. But the good times did not last long. Not long afterward, for certain reasons, and then because of a whole string of external and internal problems, my morale plunged to rock bottom. It was truly a case of collapsing…
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2007年1月19日
Run Lola Run and the Age of Games

Culture & Public Commentary2006.12.28
Run Lola Run and the Age of Games
The teacher and teaching assistant for the film appreciation course have hinted several times that there will be an essay question on the exam. Considering that the teacher has also said more than once that the questions will be fairly open-ended, it probably won’t come to a point where they specify a particular film for us to write about. Still, the teaching assistant also hinted that we should prepare from among the films we watched in class this semester. After much choosing, I still decided to prepare this one; if the exam question turns out to be maliciously tricky (for instance, if it only allows us to write a critique…
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2006年12月28日