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Art, Media, and the Space of Meaning in the Interstices

AI & the Future of Technology2011.04.23
Art, Media, and the Space of Meaning in the Interstices
Today at the reading group we touched on the question of art and technology. I myself have also made some related remarks before, for example in the comments on Professor Wu Tong’s paper in A Travelogue of the Hailar Conference: In the Western tradition of oil painting, although one carefully works with a brush during the process of painting, in the finished picture the “brush” is invisible; what appears in the picture is the object depicted. Only in more recent abstract painting or Impressionism does the “mark” of the brush begin to be left on the canvas. Chinese ink painting, by contrast, makes extensive use of brushstrokes; “as Zhang Yanyuan…
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2011年4月23日
Treating Concepts as Toys and Glasses as Toys

Philosophy & Thought2009.05.17
Treating Concepts as Toys and Glasses as Toys
In the last part of the previous essay, “Philosophy and Poetry,” I had originally wanted to mention “taking concepts as toys rather than regarding them as higher or lower,” but in the finished version I ended up deleting it because the writing never naturally flowed there. It just happened that a later chat touched on the related topic, so I’m putting it here as a supplement. At first I felt that the analogy between eyeglasses and language was not very convincing, but after thinking it over, it seems to be a pretty good analogy, actually rather interesting. Like eyeglasses, many concepts, pieces of knowledge, articles of faith, and so on…
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2009年5月17日
The Joy of “Dissatisfaction”

Philosophy & Thought2008.10.12
The Joy of “Dissatisfaction”
In my philosophy, “love” is an extremely central concept. A detailed exposition of this concept has not yet been worked out; but to give a preliminary indication, one may say that before we get to the level of “overflow” and “outpouring,” that is, before speaking of “giving” or “offering oneself,” the most primitive and basic meaning of “love” is after all “desire” and “need,” and its root is “dissatisfaction.” What I want to talk about here is precisely this “dissatisfaction.” People usually regard “dissatisfaction” as a bad state, associating it with pain and resentment; correspondingly, “satisfaction” is seen as a good state, associated with comfort and happiness. Yet I say:…
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2008年10月12日
A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games

Culture & Public Commentary2008.08.13
A Second Discussion of the “Olympics” — the “Interestingness” of Games
The “second talk” below is even less coherent, and in fact does not really talk about “Olympics” at all. It is simply continuing to talk about “games.” But since it nevertheless arises from the same occasion as the scattered essays before and after it—namely, the holding of the Olympic Games—I still name it “Second Talk on the Olympics.” Had I not written it at this moment, it might perhaps have been filed under the “nonsense” series. However, although it stands together in the title, the folder in which it is placed on the blog has been changed. The first piece, because it focused on the cultural style of ancient Greece,…
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2008年8月13日
“Love” as the Ultimate Meaning

Philosophy & Thought2008.02.18
“Love” as the Ultimate Meaning
What is the meaning of asking about the meaning of a thing? Broadly speaking, it is asking why one does this thing. But the purpose of a thing is often very hard to determine: the meaning of eating is to eliminate hunger, or to increase nutrition, or to satisfy taste, or perhaps to serve several purposes at once. At the same time, meaning can be further questioned. For example, if I say eating is for the sake of increasing nutrition, then one can ask again: what is the meaning of increasing nutrition? Continuing to ask about the meaning of increasing nutrition, one might answer that it is for the sake…
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2008年2月18日
[France] Michel Manson: “The Eternal Toy”

Culture & Public Commentary2007.10.06
[France] Michel Manson: “The Eternal Toy”
[French] Michel Manson: “The Eternal Toy,” translated by Su Qiyun and Wang Xinlian, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, August 2004, 26 yuan The reasons that attracted me to buy this book are as follows: first, it was on sale; second, it is serious scholarly work on something that appears to be an ordinary object. The seriousness of this is evident from the 46 pages of notes appended at the end of the book (the Chinese edition reproduces all the notes in facsimile, which was no small feat); third, I am very interested in this topic. After reading it, I found myself somewhat disappointed. Neither the writing nor the argument…
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2007年10月6日
Philosophy Has Become “Technique”

Philosophy & Thought2006.04.11
Philosophy Has Become “Technique”
Seeing Bohm say that the word philosophy originally meant the love of wisdom, and that now it has become a kind of technique. I also think that our age is deteriorating into reducing everything to various technologies, stripping every thing of its meaning; I believe people have already fallen into technicism…… (The Ghost in the Atom, p. 118) I have long known that Bohm inclines toward postmodernist philosophy, but his words still make sense: do the analytic philosophy and logical positivism of the Anglo-American world not amount to turning philosophy into a “technique”? Although they still retain philosophy’s emphasis on “questioning,” the “pursuit” behind the questioning has been muted, especially…
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2006年4月11日