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Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak

AI & the Future of Technology2012.01.21
Why Do I Say Nokia Will Become the Next Kodak
Kodak has filed for bankruptcy protection. Although it has not yet truly gone bankrupt and still hopes to rise again, the chances are probably slim. Nokia’s situation is in some ways similar to Kodak’s. Both were old firms that dominated the market for a century, and both were undone by the very new technologies they themselves helped develop, weighed down by the burden of their own success. Kodak did not fail to try to adapt to the new trend, but it did not succeed; Nokia is now placing its bet on Windows Phone, hoping to make a desperate comeback with Microsoft’s support. Is there any chance that, by self-amputating all…
technology media internet Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
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2012年1月21日
Schneider, What’s the Matter with You? Or, on the Thickness of Media—An Interpretation of “The Phenomenology of Perception” 1.3.8

AI & the Future of Technology2011.12.13
Schneider, What’s the Matter with You? Or, on the Thickness of Media—An Interpretation of “The Phenomenology of Perception” 1.3.8
The Thickness of the Medium — Understanding Merleau-Ponty’s Schneider Case[1] What I am dealing with is section 8 of the third chapter of Part One of *Phenomenology of Perception*: “‘Symbolic Function’ and the Existential Structure of Disease.” From the title of the section alone, one can see that it occupies a very important position. In the preceding chapters, Merleau-Ponty introduced Schneider’s case and brought in two traditional explanatory approaches: mechanistic physiology tries to explain it in terms of damage to bodily functions, while intellectualist psychology tries to explain it at the level of consciousness. But Merleau-Ponty believes that neither can truly explain the possibility of pathology. So by this section,…
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2011年12月13日
Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?

History of Science & Scholarship2011.08.19
Was Heidegger a Technological Pessimist?
This article is a rewriting based on the earlier Heidegger’s Thinking on Technology. In fact, very little was changed, but after changing the title it suddenly became much more to the point and more complete. What I presented at this year’s Yangma Island conference was this very article, so before posting the conference record, let me post this article first. Is Heidegger a Technological Pessimist? Hu Yilin, Department of Philosophy, Peking University Abstract: Heidegger’s philosophy of technology is often described as a typical kind of pessimism. Starting from the question of whether Heidegger is in fact a technological pessimist, this article selectively expounds Heidegger’s analysis of modern…
philosophy technology Heidegger Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
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2011年8月19日
The Distinctiveness of China’s Written Culture and Print Culture

AI & the Future of Technology2011.05.14
The Distinctiveness of China’s Written Culture and Print Culture
I often cite McLuhan, Walter Ong, and others on the progression from oral culture to written culture to print culture (see Media, Senses, Space-Time — A Preliminary Exploration of McLuhan’s Media Ontology), but they are basically talking within the context of Western languages. The development of writing there is basically a process of “pure oral speech — ideographic writing — consonantal alphabetic writing — vocalized alphabetic writing (from Greek onward) — alphabetic writing printed with movable type.” Certain Eastern scripts can also be fitted into this genealogy and understood in that way: for example, Arabic and Sanskrit are consonantal alphabetic scripts, and thus preserve context more strongly. However, Chinese writing…
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2011年5月14日
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
The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition

Culture & Public Commentary2011.01.13
The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition
Today (yesterday), I was dragged by Classmate Slim to take part in a salon event, where we discussed the question of Confucianism and Christianity, East and West, using the incident of building a church in Qufu as our thread. Although I’ve lately been rather lazy and reluctant to move, I still went, after all, academic salons are activities I’ve always highly esteemed, and since a classmate was organizing it and had actively come to invite me, there was no reason to demur. I had originally planned merely to go along and make up the numbers, but when I arrived I discovered that there were in fact fewer participants than expected,…
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2011年1月13日
Space and Geometry—Questions for Reflection and Suggestions for Discussion from Teacher Wang’s Lecture

History of Science & Scholarship2010.10.13
Space and Geometry—Questions for Reflection and Suggestions for Discussion from Teacher Wang’s Lecture
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=1169 Although Professor Wang’s lecture this time was rather jumpy in content, the reading materials assigned this time are relatively readable. If you read the materials in advance, listening to Professor Wang’s lecture can serve to help the two illuminate each other. I hope everyone will be sure to read the relevant materials, and at the very least must read the second part of *Science and Hypothesis*. In tomorrow’s discussion class, the main speakers and the TAs should discuss more around the materials, and not wander too far afield. Broadly speaking, the issues involved in this lecture and the reading materials are these: 1. What is space? 2. What is…
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2010年10月13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;…
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2009年11月8日
Nonsense about “Feeling”

Philosophy & Thought2008.01.23
Nonsense about “Feeling”
Rewriting “to be is to be perceived” — “Dasein is sensation.” Human beings from beginning to end are a convergence of sensations. Sensation (the senses, perception) does not, in essence, have a distinction between “inside” and “outside”; on the contrary, the distinction between “inside” and “outside,” just like “hot and cold,” “light and dark,” “high and low,” “strong and weak,” and so on, is a differentiation that arises from sensation. What is special, however, is that the distinction between “inside” and “outside” comes from “sensation of sensation,” that is, “self-consciousness.” This capacity is generally considered uniquely human, or at least something at which human beings are especially adept. The concrete…
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2008年1月23日
Inner Sense, Outer Sense, Time, Space…

Philosophy & Thought2008.01.11
Inner Sense, Outer Sense, Time, Space…
Since Kant introduced the notion of “inner sense” and assigned time to inner sense, it has seemed self-evident that time corresponds to inner sense and space to outer sense. And the idea that time is more fundamental than space—because while time can still be grounded when cut off from all outer sense, space without time has nowhere to stand—has also seemed to follow naturally. But what, exactly, is “inner sense”? What sort of sense is that, really? If the so-called “intuition” of the sixth sense is still some kind of outer sense, then could this be the legendary seventh sense? Thinking of Saint Seiya, just joking~ What I want to…
philosophy Kant space time
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2008年1月11日