Suixuan

标签：media

  • Theses on Media Ontology

    History of Science & Scholarship

    Theses on Media Ontology

    Abstract: As a philosophical program, media ontology points to a new philosophical line of thought whose origins lie in traditions associated with thinkers such as Heidegger and McLuhan. Media ontology develops its thinking around the everyday meaning of the concept of media, but it seeks to go beyond the everyday understanding of media as a neutral conduit for transmitting messages. Media, as the “extension of man,” also prompts us to rethink media as a way of understanding human nature. Media ontology implies an anthropology that transcends traditional dualism, and it is both a continuation and a surpassing of the Western classical philosophical tradition. Modern philosophy “discovered media,” but media ontology…

    philosophymediaHeideggerphenomenology
    阅读全文

  • A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger’s Media Ontology

    History of Science & Scholarship

    A Preliminary Exploration of Heidegger’s Media Ontology

    I’ve once again squeezed this out at the very last moment… abstract and table of contents still pending… A Preliminary Inquiry into Heidegger’s Media Ontology 1 When Heidegger’s philosophy of technology is mentioned, what often comes first to mind is Heidegger’s late “question concerning technology,” the thought of technology as revealing, as a mode in which truth happens, as the consummated form of metaphysics, as well as propositions such as the fourfold of earth and sky, mortals and divinities, and poetic dwelling. Technology is unquestionably a keyword of Heidegger’s late thought. Yet the crucial significance of the technological question in Heidegger’s thought, and Heidegger’s important status as a philosopher of…

    mediaHeideggerphenomenologypaper
    阅读全文

  • Doctoral Research Plan (Media Phenomenology)

    AI & the Future of Technology

    Doctoral Research Plan (Media Phenomenology)

    Following Professor Wu, the direction I am undoubtedly taking as my main focus in the doctoral stage is the philosophy of technology in phenomenology; more specifically, my research should be organized around the theme of “media phenomenology.” Under the theme of media phenomenology, my research can unfold from three angles, or in three ways. Depending on the progress of study and research over the next few years, the final doctoral dissertation will be confined to one of these angles and developed under an appropriate title. The themes and angles proposed in this research plan are merely lines of inquiry, or points of entry, for the research. This theme mainly involves…

    technologymediaphenomenologyMcLuhan
    阅读全文

  • Phenomenology Notes 3

    Philosophy & Thought

    Phenomenology Notes 3

    Today I only read two sections, about the distinction between what is called the natural attitude and the phenomenological attitude. Simply put, the natural attitude is the non-reflective attitude of everyday life, whereas the phenomenological attitude is the reflective philosophical attitude. To distinguish these two attitudes is not to set them against each other, as if one were the natural attitude of ordinary people and the other the phenomenological attitude of philosophers. In fact, the phenomenological attitude is a kind of transcending of the natural attitude, not a rebellion or a rupture. After all, the natural attitude is the basic condition of human life; reflection can only be discussed on…

    book readingmedianotesHeidegger
    阅读全文

  • Media · Sensation · Space-Time — A Preliminary Inquiry into McLuhan’s Media Ontology

    History of Science & Scholarship

    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;…

    mediaHeideggerpaperMcLuhan
    阅读全文

  • The Responsibility of the Communicator

    Culture & Public Commentary

    The Responsibility of the Communicator

    Today, while riding my bike in the rain on the 21st, as usual my thoughts drifted about, and I connected up a few threads I had recently run into, and so I wrote this essay. As for my attitude toward plagiarism and literary theft, I already made it clear in my undergraduate post “Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism and Theft.” Now that I compare my own writing to excrement, that too signals my attitude that I am not afraid of plagiarism. And yet, of course, I have always held a deep contempt for paper plagiarism. In a certain sense, plagiarism or theft in academic papers is, in my…

    culturefreedommediavalue
    阅读全文

  • “The Philosophy of Online Games”

    “The Philosophy of Online Games”
    Philosophy & Thought

    “The Philosophy of Online Games”

    For a philosophy to spread widely and be remembered by later generations, a distinctive and resounding name may well be of some help. What could my philosophy be called by others? Terms like critical philosophy, philosophy of technology, philosophy of history, and pluralism have already been overused; things like philosophy of the stars and philosophy of media also seem insufficiently precise. Suddenly it occurs to me that perhaps it could be called “network game philosophy.” The two words “network” and “game” can indicate the distinctive features and central concerns of my philosophy. Under this heading, almost all the questions of traditional philosophy—ontology, epistemology, axiology, and so on—can be developed. Moreover,…

    philosophymediainternetgame
    阅读全文

  • Philosophy of Media: An Introduction

    Philosophy & Thought

    Philosophy of Media: An Introduction

    Wu Laoshi once mentioned that in the future Xiaogu might perhaps be able to do some specialized research in the philosophy of technology of media; of course, that is something to think about later. Indeed, for me, concern with media is by no means a spur-of-the-moment interest, but a very fundamental, connecting perspective. Wu Laoshi once distinguished between two kinds of “philosophy of technology” (or, more generally, “XX-philosophy”): one is as a departmental philosophy, that is, taking XX as the object of philosophical reflection; the other is as a philosophical character, that is, taking XX as the foundation, direction, or point of departure of the whole of philosophy (in this…

    philosophymediaHeideggerknowledge
    阅读全文

  • [U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed.: Media Ecology

    AI & the Future of Technology

    [U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed.: Media Ecology

    [U.S.] Lin Wengang, ed., *Media Ecology: Intellectual Development and Multiple Perspectives*, translated by He Daokuan, Peking University Press, October 2007, 45 yuan This is another book in the Media Ecology translation series, a collection of essays on the development of media ecology. The core of the collection consists of several introductions to figures of major significance in the “intellectual development” of media ecology. The first figure is Mumford, the second is Ellul—there are two essays introducing Ellul, the second of which focuses specifically on his theological perspective. The third figure is Innis; the fourth is McLuhan; the fifth is Neil Postman, and here almost all of Postman’s important works are…

    book readingmedianotesMcLuhan
    阅读全文

  • [U.S.] Neil Postman: “The Disappearance of Childhood” —☆

    AI & the Future of Technology

    [U.S.] Neil Postman: “The Disappearance of Childhood” —☆

    [American] Neil Postman: *The Disappearance of Childhood*, translated by Wu Yanlian, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004 This is also one of those books from which I can hardly bear not to excerpt everything; I strongly recommend it! However, since I already made Postman’s *Amusing Ourselves to Death* one of the “Little Ancient Quarterly Recommendations,” I won’t designate this one as a “quarterly recommendation” as well. Like *Amusing Ourselves to Death*, *The Disappearance of Childhood* also takes media criticism as its theme, but its perspective is quite different—*Amusing Ourselves to Death* is concerned with the passing of reason and thought, whereas *The Disappearance of Childhood* is concerned with the passing of…

    culturebook readingmedianotes
    阅读全文