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Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”

AI & the Future of Technology2010.11.15
Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”
Reply to a netizen’s question: Why did knowledge change from a “virtue” into a “power”? Is it possible to reveal the root of this shift from the perspective of media? This is a great question ~ and it really can be revealed from the perspective of media. Roughly speaking, the media through which knowledge is displayed move from the age of oral speech, to manuscripts, and finally to printed books. In the oral age, the only or main way knowledge could be displayed was through speech; knowledge was displayed in lectures or debates. In such a situation, it is easy to imagine that the display of knowledge was always tied…
culture technology media knowledge
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2010年11月15日
Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-06-20

Life & Notes2009.06.20
Notes from Today’s Xin Dao Salon 09-06-20
Today I brought three slim books of minor historical studies, but looking at them I felt nothing much— or rather, I had no mind to read. In the morning, an old classmate who has been staying at my place these past few days came along, and left before lunch to go to a gathering. byz came at noon to keep me company while I sat there in a daze; a little later qy&zgz came by to chat idly; a little later byz left for a meeting. In the evening zzg arrived to chat idly; a little later qy&zgz left, and zzg and I sat there in a daze; a little…
philosophy everyday life blog public sphere
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2009年6月20日
A “Systematic Study” Plan for Philosophy of Science

History of Science & Scholarship2008.08.05
A “Systematic Study” Plan for Philosophy of Science
Recently, a number of friends have gradually found me through KKBBS and blogs and the like, hoping to consult me about the graduate entrance examination and about systematic methods for studying philosophy of science and technology. I’m sorry to say that, as a lazy student admitted by recommendation, I know virtually nothing about the graduate entrance examination; as for studying philosophy of science and technology, while I can hardly claim to have no experience at all, I am still, after all, only at the beginner stage—at most I can offer and share some beginner’s-beginner experience. But most of the people who come seeking help need guidance at the beginner level…
China science scholarship philosophy of science
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2008年8月5日
The Inertia of the Bystander

Site Matters2008.02.21
The Inertia of the Bystander
On the operation of blogs and the management of BBS forums, the most vexing problem is not that nobody reads, but that those who do read are often willing only to be “audience,” not to participate, and not even willing to leave a single word now and then (such as “great, upvote, dizzy, read, re, omg, orz,” etc.). But it is not that they are uninterested, or simply disdain it. In fact, many people come by frequently to have a look, and some of them will occasionally say “inspiring” (which, after all, is also a form of feedback, albeit an indirect one). But on the whole they are just too…
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2008年2月21日
On the Current Situation of Suixuan

Site Matters2007.09.02
On the Current Situation of Suixuan
The new place has already been renovated, and the owner of Suixuan is also in a state of everything waiting to be revived~ Originally, it should have been time to invite friends over to visit, but the bookshelves are still being organized, and right now the floor is completely covered with books, all in utter chaos, so I’m still too embarrassed to receive guests. However, if anyone wants to come visit and, by the way, help me sort books, then you can come now~ Living in a place like this is too burdened with guilt…… I should really bg more and build up more rp. But one should keep a…
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2007年9月2日
A Book-Buying Maniac’s Self-Justification

Life & Notes2007.08.01
A Book-Buying Maniac’s Self-Justification
Quoting Lao Yang, my characteristic is “as addicted to books as to life, buying books by the mountain”; the books I have piled up already number beyond counting, and it seems that, like our universe, they are actually still expanding at an accelerating rate…… Many teachers and senior students had long since tried to persuade me that there was no need to buy so many books, because in the end these books would all be useless. They told me that once one has entered the proper track of scholarship, the more important readings are original foreign-language works; Chinese books are, on the one hand, unlikely to be of the highest…
autobiography knowledge self script
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2007年8月1日
[Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens
http://www.whxw.com.cn/Article/gg/200706/20070601090150_97206.shtml Source: “Jinghua Times” Updated: 2007-6-1 9:01:50 Traditional Chinese One of the city’s 10 distinctive commercial streets; studios for animation, film, and other fields are distributed among them This newspaper report: On the morning of May 30, the Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street, after more than 10 months of renovation and transformation, was officially opened. This pedestrian street is the earliest completed project among the 10 city-level distinctive commercial streets planned to be completed in this city before 2008, and it is also the largest single street of book culture in the country. The newly completed pedestrian street is 220 meters long, about 10 meters wide, with a floor area…
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2007年6月3日
Return to Weiming Lake!

Life & Notes2007.04.10
Return to Weiming Lake!
I remember that during this period two years ago, every day I would carry three or five books on my back and sit by the shore of Weiming Lake or the lake in Langrun Garden for an entire afternoon. When I grew tired of reading, I would gaze at the water for a while, staying until evening or even sunset, and only after I had finished several books would I leave—both carefree and at ease, and astonishingly efficient. For more than a year, although I would occasionally still wander around Weiming Lake, whenever I walked by the lake there was always a heavy shadow pressing on my heart. Several times…
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2007年4月10日
[U.S.] Neil Postman: “The Disappearance of Childhood” —☆

AI & the Future of Technology2007.01.24
[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…
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2007年1月24日
A Complete Guide to Buying Books in Shanghai, Beijing, and Online

Life & Notes2006.08.29
A Complete Guide to Buying Books in Shanghai, Beijing, and Online
Shanghai: Having grown used to living at Peking University, when I came back to Shanghai I felt that finding books was really not very convenient. Still, Shanghai is after all a big city, so there are quite a few bookstores. From my home it’s a very short walk to First Yaohan, and in the basement of First Yaohan there is the so-called “Oriental Book City,” advertised as the largest in Pudong. There are quite a lot of books, but the layout is too chaotic; as a general bookstore, it doesn’t have many academic books. On Fuzhou Road: Shanghai Book City is the most famous, but it is also a general…
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2006年8月29日