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  • [Archive] Einstein on Parades

    Culture & Public Commentary

    [Archive] Einstein on Parades

    Excerpted from [U.S.]Walter•Isaacson: Einstein: His Life and Universe, translated by Zhang Butian In Munich, although the penetration of Bavarian spirit into everyday life had not yet gone quite so deep, that Prussian-style glorification of the army was already running rampant. Many children liked to play at being soldiers. When the army passed by to the sound of flutes and drums, children would pour into the street, join the procession, and march along step by step. Einstein was not like that. The first time he saw such a spectacle, he burst into tears. “I certainly didn’t want to grow up to become such a pitiful fellow,” he told his parents. As…

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  • On “吐嘈”

    Philosophy & Thought

    On “吐嘈”

    Recently I’ve had a way of putting it that philosophy is a kind of act of “tucao.” I’m going to boldly adopt this “term” in my own philosophy; it really is strikingly apt. Anyone who often watches Japanese anime will know the word “tucao,” but “outsiders” and beginners probably won’t quite understand what it actually means, so let me explain it roughly. The explanations circulating online seem all to be copied and pasted from a passage by the POPGO subtitle group. That’s really quite lazy. You can look it up on Baidu Baike or the like. I’ll combine some easily found online materials and briefly restate it in my own…

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  • Philosophy and Nudity

    Philosophy & Thought

    Philosophy and Nudity

    Heaven knows why, amid the pressure of several entirely muddled papers, I still have the mind to write so many essays. But there’s nothing to be done: when you need to let it out, holding it in is miserable. Once I finish this one, this round of catharsis can come to an end. That is to say, from “From Fisherman to Pirate” on to this piece, one could say that a series has taken shape, and that it can be understood as the final complaints before setting sail. From here on out…… whew—anyway, I’m no longer sitting and waiting in the palace. This piece has been given a rather eye-catching…

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  • Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy

    Life & Notes

    Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy

    If I were recruiting a crew, of course I would need to explain what sort of style and route this ship more or less has. When it comes to a program, it is actually a rather ambiguous thing: it is either too general or too specific. It can be condensed to a single character, “love” or “I”; to two characters, “freedom” or “seeking”; to three, “play games” or “possibility”; to four, “preserve sameness while seeking difference” or “strive for excellence”; to five, “know yourself” or “that old bear of a mother-in-law,” and so on. Any of these could be posted as a slogan at the entrance to Suixuan. Of course,…

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  • Talking Again About Guo Degang

    Culture & Public Commentary

    Talking Again About Guo Degang

    It was nearly two years ago that I wrote an essay called “Also on Guo Degang.” At the time, I was responding to an article by ZW; astonishingly, he actually looked down on Guo Degang. I had only listened to a few short audio clips then, so I mainly said a few words from the angle of “tradition,” arguing that Guo Degang had certainly contributed to the development of crosstalk. But recently, on the advice of an older fellow student, I learned that Guo Degang’s crosstalk really has to be watched on video; only then did I go back and find a lot of videos to watch again. Ah, OMG,…

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  • Simon Critchley: “Hello, Humor”

    Philosophy & Thought

    Simon Critchley: “Hello, Humor”

    [UK] Simon Critchley: *Hello, Humor*, translated by Liu Dongxin and Feng Tao, Guangxi Normal University Press, May 2007, 18 yuan The author’s opening words say, “To try to write a philosophy of humor is an impudent and arrogant act, and that act itself has become a joke.” Laughter requires the movement of a person’s whole body and countless nerves; “humor,” along with the making of humor and theories about humor, also engages nearly all of human capacities and forms of knowledge. Humor is the interweaving of sensibility and reason, a mixture of impulse, desire, silence, and reflection, the convergence of literature, poetry, and philosophy. Theoretical discussions of humor are a…

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  • April Fool’s Day…

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    April Fool’s Day…

    Who can tell a lie that can really shock me? I remember that the mildest but most effective lie people used to tell all the time was: “Your shoelace is untied.” Even if the other person was on full guard, they would usually still look down once. A slightly sleazier but based on the same principle one is “Your zipper is down” (only works on guys). It triggers an instinctive reaction; no matter how alert you are, in general you still can’t help glancing down at it~ Legend has it that some Western TV station once broadcast fake news of a Martian invasion on April Fool’s Day, and the result…

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  • Further Thoughts on Guo Degang

    Culture & Public Commentary

    Further Thoughts on Guo Degang

    I do like listening to crosstalk, but I don’t know much about the performing arts, and I’ve not thought about them very deeply either. So in the first place, there was no need for me to choose this topic and write an essay about it. Still, lately I’ve begun to feel that, however much of a philosopher one may be, one ought at least to cultivate a sufficient concern for problems—on any topic worth discussing, if you put in a certain amount of effort, you can immediately spin out a few opinions. Since I’ve always hoped that friends would comment on the topics I discuss on my blog, even when…

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