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  • How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class

    How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class

    How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class
    Teaching & Courses

    How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class

    Getting upeatingusing the toilet, and then the next steps should be getting dressed, going downstairs, riding a bicycle, and so on. This time, since a reader requested it, I’ll first jump ahead to “going to class” and talk about that. Another key point is that I was not in good shape before this class, so “going to class” happened to be something I could talk about fairly casually without much preparation. This part is relatively rambling; it is only a record, and not recommended reading. Next time will be the last class, and I may jump back and talk about riding a bicycle, but it will mainly be free exchange….

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  • Media as Environment — A Rough Philosophical Reading of Media Ecology

    History of Science & Scholarship

    Media as Environment — A Rough Philosophical Reading of Media Ecology

    This is the draft of the talk I’m preparing to give tomorrow at Tsinghua; by then I’ll basically plan to read straight from the script, of course after finishing I’ll probably also expand on certain parts extemporaneously depending on how things go…   This talk aims to offer a brief and accessible overview of the basic claims of my dissertation. My dissertation involves many problems, and the relationships among its chapters are originally rather loose, so it is not very easy to distill. Here I can only focus on a few core concepts. Since I have avoided the most abstruse parts (ontology and transcendental philosophy) and the most concrete parts…

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  • Bitcoin: Common Sense and Dogma

    Bitcoin: Common Sense and Dogma

    Bitcoin: Common Sense and Dogma
    Web3 & Bitcoin

    Bitcoin: Common Sense and Dogma

    Recently I’ve been following some Weibo accounts and websites related to Bitcoin, watching from the sidelines and even taking part in some of the related debates—for instance, the arguments surrounding this Weibo post were very lively: http://weibo.com/1646744100/zBFt7q7D1 I must admit that paying attention to Bitcoin while I’m anxiously preparing my doctoral dissertation does make me seem a bit off task, but I’d still like to offer myself a defense: after all, this is not completely beside the point. First of all, of course, one buys Bitcoin hoping to make money, or at least hoping to hedge risk. Right now the international and domestic financial and economic environment is facing a…

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  • The Economic History of Media—From Marx to Innis

    AI & the Future of Technology

    The Economic History of Media—From Marx to Innis

    Innis (Harold Adams Innis, 1894–1952), together with McLuhan, is recognized as one of the founders of the media ecology school. McLuhan highly praised Innis’s contributions, wrote prefaces to his two major works in communication studies, and even regarded his own breakthrough book *The Gutenberg Galaxy* as “a footnote to Innis’s viewpoint”[1]. But later, as McLuhan rose to fame, Innis instead became a footnote in McLuhan studies, a preliminary step in explaining the origins of McLuhan’s thought. In the academic context of media ecology, Innis is usually presented as McLuhan’s background or foil. Of course, some scholars have noticed Innis’s distinctive value, especially James Carey, who placed Innis above McLuhan. Entering…

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  • [U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed.: Media Ecology

    AI & the Future of Technology

    [U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed.: Media Ecology

    [U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed., *Media Ecology: Intellectual Development and Multiple Perspectives*, translated by He Daokuan, Peking University Press, October 2007, 45 yuan This is another book in the Media Ecology translation series, a collection of essays on the development of media ecology. The core of the collection consists of several introductions to figures of major significance in the “intellectual development” of media ecology. The first figure is Mumford, the second is Ellul—there are two essays introducing Ellul, the second of which focuses specifically on his theological perspective. The third figure is Innis; the fourth is McLuhan; the fifth is Neil Postman, and here almost all of Postman’s important works are…

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