标签：media ontology

Photography and Science

History of Science & Scholarship2013.03.23
Photography and Science
This is a simple metaphor that I have used before, though I never wrote it up as a special topic. Today, when I was eating with Teacher Zhang and the others, I brought it up again, and I think this metaphor is still fairly illuminating, so I’ll talk about it here in some detail. The metaphor is mainly meant to express our attitude toward science and how to understand the relation between science and the “world”: science is like photography, offering an image of the world. We point at a photograph and identify it, saying, “This is Zhang San.” Is this Zhang San? Yes, this is indeed Zhang San, not…
technology science media phenomenology
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2013年3月23日
The Mediality of “Natural Seeing”

AI & the Future of Technology2012.03.21
The Mediality of “Natural Seeing”
Originally, I had planned to put up this article after the proposal defense, but while writing it I realized that in fact it was nothing more than citing some things I had written before, so I shelved it. But today a troll came by my Theses on Media Ontology, which just happens to give me a good occasion to post this article as a response. In fact, this troll’s objection was similar to the question Professor Sun raised back then. Of course, Professor Sun always poses his questions haughtily but without losing decorum, whereas internet trolls are different. I very much welcome criticism and questioning, especially the sort Professor Sun…
technology media phenomenology nature
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2012年3月21日
Notes on Being and Time, Part I: The Questioning Path That Illuminates the Light

Philosophy & Thought2012.02.24
Notes on Being and Time, Part I: The Questioning Path That Illuminates the Light
Last year, when our reading group read *Being and Time*, I had already thought of writing reading notes as we went along. But at the time I talked quite a lot while reading, so I more or less used up my urge to express myself on the spot; when I got home, I was too lazy to write it all out again, and in the end I never managed to do it. This semester, as we read *Being and Time* again in the Wumen discussion seminar, maybe I can take the opportunity to make up those notes. The introductory part of *Being and Time* is very important, but also not…
book reading notes media Heidegger
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2012年2月24日
Media Realism—Scientific Realism from the Perspective of Media Ontology

AI & the Future of Technology2011.02.22
Media Realism—Scientific Realism from the Perspective of Media Ontology
I’m very sorry that, in the end, I still couldn’t finish writing it. The latter half of the references simply wouldn’t integrate at all, so I’ll still mainly be talking off the cuff… But I really don’t want to get tied down any further by this paper, so tomorrow I’ll just give it as a casual discussion, and then in a few weeks I’ll write a proper paper that really stands on firm ground and present that instead. Media Realism—A View of Scientific Realism from Media Ontology “Realism” is an ancient and complex philosophical theme, tangled up with concepts such as truth and being, and involving fields such as metaphysics,…
philosophy technology philosophy of science media
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2011年2月22日
[Draft] Several Issues in the Philosophy of Science from the Perspective of Media Ontology—Scientific Method, Causality, and Realism

History of Science & Scholarship2011.02.17
[Draft] Several Issues in the Philosophy of Science from the Perspective of Media Ontology—Scientific Method, Causality, and Realism
I had originally planned to write a paper that would re-interpret some issues in traditional philosophy of science from the perspective of media ontology (phenomenology). I tried to “translate” certain discussions in traditional philosophy of science from the standpoint of media theory, and thereby raise the questions anew. Roughly speaking, there were several lines of inquiry: first, realism (and so-called instrumentalism); second, causality and scientific explanation; third, scientific method and the demarcation of science. But in actual writing I dragged on for N long, and to this day still have nowhere to start. With the first report of the new term looming, I am frankly uneasy, so I decided to…
science philosophy of science media Heidegger
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2011年2月17日
Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship

AI & the Future of Technology2010.12.14
Categories in the Internet Age and Hypertext Scholarship
WordPress-based blogs have countless advantages: backup functionality, easy maintenance, a wide range of mode choices, and abundant room for expansion. Apart from the legendary drawback that they seem to consume comparatively more server resources, they are really beyond criticism. For me, apart from the crucial ability to be backed up, WordPress also offers another crucial revolution compared with the Yaiku blog: namely, a revolution in the way categories are arranged. This revolution looks trivial at first glance: it is simply a shift from the original linear, segmented model to a many-to-many correspondence. In other words, on Yaiku, each post belongs to, and belongs only to, one folder, whereas under the…
technology scholarship Aristotle internet
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2010年12月14日
Supplementary Remarks on Media Ontology

AI & the Future of Technology2010.08.15
Supplementary Remarks on Media Ontology
Phenomenology and philosophy of technology in Hailar are over. The trip was fairly pleasant, and I still have to write up the conference record, headache and all… Before reviewing the various papers and itineraries, let me first add a few notes to my own article. In the article, I originally used eyeglasses as an example to illustrate the reflective method of taking the medium as medium. When I reported it in Teacher Wu’s class, several people raised questions, so I added an example of a keyboard and a passage of explanation. The example I gave on the spot was the microphone at hand—when the microphone is put to use, it…
technology media Introduction to Philosophy of Technology knowledge
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2010年8月15日
Media · Sensation · Space-Time — A Preliminary Inquiry into McLuhan’s Media Ontology

History of Science & Scholarship2009.11.08
Media · Sensation · Space-Time — A Preliminary Inquiry into McLuhan’s Media Ontology
Although I’m said to write articles very quickly, that quickness has conditions: that is to say, only after I’ve dawdled and dawdled and dawdled until the very last moment can I possibly squeeze out a paper at lightning speed…… This time I’ve finally squeezed it out again at the last possible moment; as for how effective it is…… well…… I don’t care anymore…… entering dead-pig-doesn’t-fear-boiling-water mode…… Media•Sensation•Space-Time ——A Preliminary Inquiry into McLuhan’s Media Ontology Abstract: The basic position or method of McLuhan’s media theory can appropriately be called “media ontology.” In McLuhan’s view, media are not neutral channels for the transmission of information between subjects, or between subject and object;…
media Heidegger paper Wu Guosheng
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2009年11月8日