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“Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09

AI & Scholarship2026.01.06
“Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09
This is a written interview, published in issue 160 of Xinrui Weekly; it was abridged when first published, so here I am posting the original text. Q1.[Required] First, could you talk about what took up the most of your energy this year, and why you wanted to push this thing forward? The thing that took up the most of my energy this year was actually raising a child, after all, life matters more than affairs. Of course, the more official thing is that I founded a technology and art studio. Today, with AI and other technologies (such as biotechnology) developing at a breathtaking pace, every industry will undergo drastic change,…
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2026年1月6日
Full-Sensory Games vs. Fully On-Chain Games—Two Directions for the Metaverse Revolution

Culture & Public Commentary2023.08.08
Full-Sensory Games vs. Fully On-Chain Games—Two Directions for the Metaverse Revolution
This article was originally the topic of a talk I gave when I took part in a PTADAO sharing session as a friend. After the talk, I organized the text myself, and it was almost as if I reworked the whole line of thought from scratch, forming a more complete article. After it was published on “Yuaibo Sanguan,” it was retitled On Fully On-Chain Games: Reality Is Not Unreal, Virtuality Is Not False, Greatness Does Not Rely on Planning. This article can be counted as a “small synthesis” of my recent thinking. I’m posting the original here. 1 The game of innovation: the only way to achieve great innovation is…
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2023年8月8日
Philosophy of Metaverse Space (Introduction)

Philosophy & Thought2023.07.20
Philosophy of Metaverse Space (Introduction)
This is a topic I have wanted to write about for some time now, including “blockchain philosophy of time” and “metaverse philosophy of space.” These fields can bring into play my own intellectual grounding in Heidegger + McLuhan, and also form a continuous thread from classical philosophy all the way to cyberpunk. It is a very big topic, and for the moment I find it hard to produce an answer that satisfies even myself. But this year’s phenomenology and philosophy of technology conference is about to be held, and I hope to speak on it, so I have hastily put together some words to turn in as an initial stopgap….
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2023年7月20日
Commentary on the 2023 Exam Paper for “Media History and Media Philosophy”

Teaching & Courses2023.07.06
Commentary on the 2023 Exam Paper for “Media History and Media Philosophy”
This is my second round of teaching the course “History of Media and Media Philosophy.” The overall syllabus and bibliography did not change much. Compared with the previous cohort, discussion sections were removed, a final in-class exam was added, and in terms of content, artificial intelligence and Web3 were added. The syllabus is as follows: (Two weeks) Introduction: Discovering Media — Media Philosophy McLuhan, Understanding Media; Heidegger, Being and Time Primitive Media — Language, Stone Tools, Symbolic Objects, Knotted Cords Harari, A Brief History of Humankind; Mien, A Brief History of Prehistoric Humans (Two weeks) Writing — Script and Its Material Supports, Oral vs. Written, Alphabet Innis, Empire and Communications;…
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2023年7月6日
Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course (Fall Semester 2022–23)

Teaching & Courses2023.04.05
Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course (Fall Semester 2022–23)
Because last semester’s final assignment was not due until the beginning of this semester, and after the term started I was, on the one hand, busy with all sorts of pointless odds and ends, while on the other hand I ran straight into allergy season. Every spring my allergies torment me half to death, and this year was no exception; when my rhinitis flares up I can do absolutely nothing. In short, I dawdled and dawdled until now before finally writing this summary. “Introduction to Philosophy of Technology” is an old course. I taught two rounds of it in the autumn of 2018 and the autumn of 2019 (see the…
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2023年4月5日
A Guide to Understanding Media: Means Are the Measure

AI & the Future of Technology2022.01.17
A Guide to Understanding Media: Means Are the Measure
This was a lecture program I recorded at Super Star half a year ago; a cut version can be found here https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1W34y1z7QD?from=search&seid=5300241720853418317&spm_id_from=333.337.0.0. The full version is probably on Super Star. The transcript of this lecture was handed to Li Shi for revision and enrichment, and was rewritten into a book review published in issue 10 of Chinese Media Technology in 2021, titled “Embracing McLuhan in Fragments—A New Perspective on Reading Understanding Media.” Here I’m posting the original spoken version of the script. McLuhan is an oddity in the history of scholarship: it is hard to categorize what sort of “-ist” he actually was. Naturally, when that happens, we generally just…
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2022年1月17日
On VR (3): Some VR Game Experiences and the “Auditory-Tactile Space”

AI & the Future of Technology2021.08.16
On VR (3): Some VR Game Experiences and the “Auditory-Tactile Space”
A few days ago, while having a meal with students and talking about papers, we got onto VR-related questions again. I suddenly remembered that essays in a similar “series” usually stop at part one or two, and I felt rather ashamed of myself, so here I am continuing the previous post. I previously wrote Talking VR (II). After that there were actually three more pieces related to VR: On the Backboard — The Phenomenology of Beat Saber, AR Glasses and the “Brain in a Vat”, and Can VR Save Us from Our Smartphone Addiction? But the first two are mainly about philosophical questions, while the last one is a rewriting…
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2021年8月16日
A Course Summary on Media History and Media Philosophy (Spring 2021)

Teaching & Courses2021.07.16
A Course Summary on Media History and Media Philosophy (Spring 2021)
This is a new course, though not all of its content is actually new; some of it has “overflowed” from my two other courses, “A General History of Technology” and “Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology.” Since I keep adding content to both of those courses, I plan to transfer the sections on media technologies in “A General History of Technology” (including writing, printing, the telegraph, and so on) to this course. Of course, in the new course I will give more prominence to the relevant philosophical reflections, with both history and philosophy in view. As usual, I am writing up a course summary. I’ll make this first one a…
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2021年7月16日
Freedom of Speech and Social Media

Culture & Public Commentary2021.01.11
Freedom of Speech and Social Media
This article was written spontaneously, as a stream-of-consciousness piece prompted by my own feelings; it is shared only on Suixuan, and please do not reprint it. Trump’s social media accounts being banned set off a discussion about freedom of speech. Aside from the arguments that have never reached consensus, today’s discussions of freedom of speech do in fact involve some new conditions that have only emerged in the past decade or so. This is the rise of large social media websites. They have carved out an autonomous space in the network world, and in many cases have replaced what used to be understood as public space. Whether, and how, the…
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2021年1月11日
From Deep to Shallow—Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course

Teaching & Courses2019.01.31
From Deep to Shallow—Summary of the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology Course
The second course I taught for undergraduates at Tsinghua, “Introduction to Philosophy of Technology,” has now come to a fairly successful close. I had already posted a summary of comments on the assignments for “Introduction to Philosophy of Technology”. Now let me give a proper summary. Overall Design This course, together with the earlier General History of Technology, is one of the two general-education courses I have been “scheming” to build. Once I have taught these two courses well, I may also try offering courses such as “General History of Science,” or “History of the Industrial Revolution,” “Introduction to Philosophy of Science,” and “History of Science and Philosophy,” but for…
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2019年1月31日