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Scattered Reflections on Love and Hate During My Retreat

Life & Notes2008.07.22
Scattered Reflections on Love and Hate During My Retreat
To write a long essay on the idea of “love,” the conception of this project began at least three years ago. But because of fluctuations in my thinking and other factors, I could not bring myself to start. Only just before my period of seclusion did I finally set down an “introductory note” and begin formally brewing this essay. What I post below is a tiny germ produced in the course of that brewing. The formulations here mainly come from the opportunity to exchange views with UNIC, and those exchanges also led to her distancing herself from me. Of course, all contextual information has been cut away; in any case,…
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2008年7月22日
Chat Transcript on Marxist Philosophy and New Students

Philosophy & Thought2007.07.24
Chat Transcript on Marxist Philosophy and New Students
Subversion and rebellion are characteristic of philosophy. Breaking with old frameworks of thought, set patterns, and prejudices is a shortcut to approaching philosophy. The “philosophy” taught in high school is utterly different from the philosophy of philosophers—so different that even some classmates who have studied philosophy at university are completely unaware of the gap, yet it is an important and enormous one. I personally began with 20th-Century New Marxism, by overturning my prior impression of Marx’s philosophy, and gradually became interested in philosophy. I think my experience may also be useful for later students. (Of course, the difference between middle-school “philosophy” and philosophy is not only about specific claims and…
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2007年7月24日
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.31
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology
The Third Path That Can Be Chosen—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology Introduction American philosopher of technology Andrew Feenberg is a representative of contemporary Western Marxist philosophy of technology. His critical theory of technology seeks to open up a “third path” in philosophy of technology—Feenberg hopes to carve out a new route between the traditional optimism and pessimism about technology, inheriting the critique and reflection on modern technology found in the Frankfurt School, Heidegger, Ellul, and other pessimists, while also retaining something of the utopian ideal found in Marx and in theorists of technology as a tool. Feenberg believes that he will “preserve the strengths of both theories while…
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2007年5月31日
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)

Philosophy & Thought2007.05.31
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)
As usual, let me first post a rough draft of the essay. I had originally planned to write about Heidegger, but Heidegger’s articles are really too ethereal; when I read them, it’s all clouds and fog, impossible to get a grip on… Among the philosophy of technology thinkers discussed so far, aside from Marx, Feenberg is still the one most to my taste, though Ellul and Mumford are also worthy of respect. [US]Andrew Feenberg: Critique of Technology, translated by Han Lianqing and Cao Guanfǎ, Peking University Press,2005 Preface, p. 1, v, (first sentence) Must humanity submit to the harsh logic of machines? Or can technology be fundamentally redesigned so that…
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2007年5月31日
Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)

Culture & Public Commentary2007.05.07
Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)
……Would the teachers in the School of Marxism go insane after reading this? Outline for the Midterm Discussion of “Deng San” Requirement: choose one aspect of the “five coordinated balances” in the concept of scientific development and talk about your reflections. “The scientific outlook on development is, in essence, people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development.” We say that “people-oriented” is the essence and core of the scientific outlook on development—“Adhering to people-oriented development means taking the all-round development of people as the goal, seeking and promoting development from the fundamental interests of the people, continuously satisfying the people’s ever-growing material and cultural needs, earnestly safeguarding the people’s economic, political, and…
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2007年5月7日
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Is Palmistry Materialism?

History of Science & Scholarship2007.04.16
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: Is Palmistry Materialism?
It seems like a fallacy 1: Is palm reading materialism? 2007-04-08 10:37:38 http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/48c5bb42010009el For many years now, there have been many muddled notions popular in China that need to be cleared up slowly. For example, many people regard reading palms to predict fate as idealism and criticize it. Whether predicting fate by palm reading is accurate and effective, I have not studied it, so I dare not offer a verdict. The information on the palm may be able to reflect fate; in theory that is not easy to accept and is hard to reconcile with modern science. But even if it is superstition, nonsense, and utter rubbish, does it therefore…
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2007年4月16日
Supplementary Questions from the Marx Lecture in the Philosophy of Technology Class

AI & the Future of Technology2007.03.16
Supplementary Questions from the Marx Lecture in the Philosophy of Technology Class
Supplement to the classroom questions: My confusion arose because I had first listened to Professor Wu’s lecture at Tsinghua and read the transcript of Professor Wu’s remarks on “Technology as the difference of being,” and only then looked at Marx, where everything felt extremely, extremely familiar—so familiar that it seemed Marx and Professor Wu were basically saying the same thing! First let me talk about my reading of some of Marx’s views on “human essence” in the 1844 manuscripts: Marx says: “The externalization of labor appears … first, that labor is external to the worker, that it does not belong to his essence; that therefore he does not affirm…
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2007年3月16日
Excerpts from My Reading of Marx in the Philosophy of Technology Course

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.13
Excerpts from My Reading of Marx in the Philosophy of Technology Course
Excerpts from Marx Readings in the Philosophy of Technology Class I looked up The German Ideology on my own in order to verify Marx’s understanding of the concept of the human being and of human freedom. The remaining materials all come from the electronic file distributed by Wu-laoshi. What follows is only a transcription of the original text; I am not commenting for the time being. The underlines and boldface are all my additions. “The German Ideology (Selected Excerpts),” People’s Publishing House, 2003: The constraint of the level of development of productive forces on freedom (Chinese first edition of the Complete Works, Vol. 3, pp. 506–508) The problem as Sancho…
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2007年3月13日
How Am I a Marxist?

Life & Notes2007.01.04
How Am I a Marxist?
I’ve recently been wanting to sort out this question again and make my position clear once more — I still call myself a Marxist, and that has never changed since I joined the Party. I have always idealized myself as a maverick, an unruly thinker; as long as I have not resigned from the Party, I will continue to insist on this. Expediency and status can never be reasons for me to remain inside the Party. The only reason I am a Party member is that I genuinely claim to be a Marxist. So, how am I a Marxist? Of course, one major reason is that I am a Party…
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2007年1月4日
What Should “Commodity” Be?

Culture & Public Commentary2006.10.11
What Should “Commodity” Be?
What Should a “Commodity” Be? —In Defense of Marx’s Definition of “Commodity” “What has ‘consumption’ brought?”—If you were to let modern people discuss this topic, especially if you handed it to Chinese youth—the most enthusiastic group about the “market economy” in today’s world[①]—their general line of thought would probably be: consumption promotes exchange, exchange promotes production, production in turn promotes consumption, and so on; in short, consumption will ultimately bring “abundance”—the abundance of wealth, the abundance of life, and so forth. Thus we often hear slogans such as “stimulate consumption” and “boost domestic demand.” In any case, consumption is always a good thing; surplus generates consumption, consumption creates prosperity… This…
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2006年10月11日