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Humans and Technology in Evolution—Technology Also Needs “Protected Areas for Diversity”

AI & the Future of Technology2019.05.02
Humans and Technology in Evolution—Technology Also Needs “Protected Areas for Diversity”
Last week I went to give a lecture at 新华·知本读书会. Both Book City Magazine and Pengpai’s book-reading crowd published records of it, and both were arranged quite well. Here I’m reposting the transcript from The Paper (authorized). Pengpai’s arrangement reconstructed my line of thought better, and the clickbait title also captured the essence. My originally planned lecture title was “Humans and Technology in Evolution: Parasitism or Symbiosis,” and I actually wanted to focus mainly on the cyborg direction. But during preparation I found that cyborgs are really not so easy to talk about, so I toned down the subtitle. Thus the title revised by Pengpai—“Technology Also Needs a ‘Diversity Preserve,’…
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2019年5月2日
Salute to the Strivers! — Striving for the Capitalist or Striving for All Humanity? (Comments on 996)

Culture & Public Commentary2019.04.15
Salute to the Strivers! — Striving for the Capitalist or Striving for All Humanity? (Comments on 996)
Recently I’ve posted someremarks on Weibo about the 996 issue, and there’s already quite a bit of text; I’ve excerpted it here and will also fill it out further What I was first responding to was Jack Ma’s representative statement: Last night I had a conversation with my colleagues at Alibaba about the hot-button issue of 996 at work. Today many young people are facing this problem. I think that if you choose to win your own happiness and success through struggle and effort, you may want to seriously reflect on what I’m about to say; but if you want your future to be happier and more joyful than ordinary…
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2019年4月15日
Course Schedule for the 2018 Fall Semester (Introduction to Philosophy of Technology + Selected Readings in Classic Works of Philosophy of Science)

Teaching & Courses2018.09.19
Course Schedule for the 2018 Fall Semester (Introduction to Philosophy of Technology + Selected Readings in Classic Works of Philosophy of Science)
This semester I’m teaching two courses: one is “Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology” for undergraduates, and the other is the required graduate course “Selected Readings in the Classics of Philosophy of Science.” Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology meets every Tuesday at 15:20, in 6B113 of Building 6. Selected Readings in the Classics of Philosophy of Science meets every Wednesday at 13:30 (adjusting to 13:00 after October), in 3203 of Building 3. As for the reading group, the time has not yet been decided; I guess it may not officially get underway until after the National Day holiday? Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology Course Description This course alternates…
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2018年9月19日
Bitcoin: Common Sense and Dogma

Web3 & Bitcoin2013.06.20
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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2013年6月20日
The Economic History of Media—From Marx to Innis

AI & the Future of Technology2013.06.03
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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2013年6月3日
Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”

Philosophy & Thought2012.02.03
Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”
Stirred by the Fang Yaohan incident, I wrote three articles in a row, which is already quite enough to have gotten my money’s worth. Since Han Han has also announced that he is stopping writing and not talking about it anymore, I may as well stop here too. So this article continues from the earlier piece “The Kingly Way”; everyone can skip the previous three articles, and we can continue talking about “morality.” We say that the kingly way is the path to supreme goodness, and supreme goodness is nothing other than “the best life.” But in the traditional sense, for a ruler, the kingly way merely provides one of…
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2012年2月3日
Freedom vs. Equality — I Am a Right-Wing Socialist

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2012.01.17
Freedom vs. Equality — I Am a Right-Wing Socialist
Last month I posted an article talking about my impressions of the two Wu teachers’ gathering, and as a result a commenter who was criticizing Professor Wu Tong showed up and we exchanged several rounds in the thread below. It’s not that I absolutely had to defend Professor Wu Tong; after all, my dealings with him have mostly been public and not much private, and I wouldn’t dare pound my chest and guarantee that he himself is beyond reproach. But taking the matter strictly on its merits, and judging only from the circumstances presented by the accuser, I still couldn’t help wanting to defend him: not only Professor Wu Tong,…
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2012年1月17日
“Co-being” and the Horse of Seahorse-ism

Philosophy & Thought2010.12.18
“Co-being” and the Horse of Seahorse-ism
The progress of the Being and Time reading group has been fairly smooth so far, and we have now reached the part on being-with and the Anyone. At the time, I stopped where I did in “A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger’s Ontology of Media,” and I wrote then: “Speaking of the ‘Anyone,’ Heidegger’s related discussions of ‘being-with,’ ‘falling,’ and so on will also be drawn in. Dasein’s being-in-the-world is not only always dealing with things, but is also always dealing with others, and this is precisely where the concepts of ‘dealing with’ and ‘media’ ought to apply. However, as a very preliminary glimpse into Heidegger’s ontology of media, this article…
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2010年12月18日
Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System

Culture & Public Commentary2010.11.09
Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System
Earlier I wrote a paper on “natural history,” but it was rather hasty, and there is still much work to be done. On the one hand, the inner connection between the rise of natural history and the rise of historiography in modern Western thought still awaits examination from the standpoint of intellectual history; on the other hand, the relationship between history and nature also deserves further philosophical reflection. Senior Brother Ke suggested that I read Foucault’s The Order of Things; he seemed to mean that the book would support the translation “natural science” [博物学], but when I flipped through it roughly, it was clearly supporting my line of thought. In…
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2010年11月9日
Marx’s Theory of the Human from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technology (Lecture Notes for a Class Report in Marxist Philosophy)

AI & the Future of Technology2008.10.16
Marx’s Theory of the Human from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technology (Lecture Notes for a Class Report in Marxist Philosophy)
Since so many of the selected students are all speaking around Marx’s humanism, I think that as for the overall line of Marx’s anthropology, as well as the sorting out of some basic concepts such as alienation, everyone will probably do better than I can. In particular, the students of Marxist philosophy and Western philosophy should be well practiced in this. And whether in terms of overall grasp or close reading of specific texts, I am an outsider; although I do have some of my own thoughts and takeaways, if other students can speak better here, then I need not make a fool of myself. I am not being modest….
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2008年10月16日