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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”…
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2009年7月31日
In Praise of the Abacus?

History of Science & Scholarship2007.12.03
In Praise of the Abacus?
Among all the extracurricular skills I learned as a child, abacus counting was by far the most meaningful. The “mental abacus arithmetic” we learned was not just operating an abacus; through long-term training, it was a way of “placing the abacus in the mind” and then doing mental calculation with it. After about two years of training between first and third grade in primary school, three times a day—morning, noon, and evening—even if one did not quite reach the level of a few speed-calculation prodigies, one could at least manage, say, to hear several dozen three- or four-digit numbers in succession, compute their sum, and keep up as fast as…
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2007年12月3日
[Canada] Sergio Sismondo: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies

History of Science & Scholarship2007.10.21
[Canada] Sergio Sismondo: An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
[Canadian] Sergio Sismondo: Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, translated by Xu Weimin, Meng Qiang, Cui Hailing, and Chen Haidan, Shanghai Century Publishing Group, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, August 2007, 25.5 yuan It is a rare introduction to “science and technology studies” (Science and Technology Studies, or, alternatively, scientific and technological studies, science and technology metrology, and so on; since this concept sometimes refers to a transdisciplinary field of study, and sometimes also denotes a certain stance or camp, while its boundaries are fuzzy, it is really hard to pin down… the translators also discuss this in the postface). Because there are still very few comparable Chinese-language books…
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2007年10月21日
[French] R. Shep et al. (interview): “The Empire of Technology”

Culture & Public Commentary2007.01.30
[French] R. Shep et al. (interview): “The Empire of Technology”
[French] R. Shepu and others (interview): “The Empire of Technology” Xingding posted on 2007-01-30 16:26:52 [French] R. Shepu and others (interview): “The Empire of Technology,” translated by Liu Li, SDX Joint Publishing Company, (how come they didn’t print the month and year of publication!?) It feels rather average. The last interview has a bit to it. January 30, 2007, 16:22 Read 198 times Comments Personal homepage Toss a note Folder: Reading—Buying Books
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2007年1月30日