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Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival

Life & Notes2008.11.12
Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival
Compared with the previous two years, this year’s Guanggun Festival was quite enjoyable. Of course, nothing good actually happened; it was just that I was in an especially good mood. Lately I’ve been in a very good mood all the time, and that is one of the motives behind my post soliciting a mm. What excited me most today was receiving the new MP3 I bought a few days ago. Originally I had bought it as a birthday present to myself, but unexpectedly it still arrived a little late. Oh well, let’s count it as a festival gift~ The old MP3 of mine actually hadn’t broken, it just had a…
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2008年11月12日
Marx’s Theory of the Human from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technology (Lecture Notes for a Class Report in Marxist Philosophy)

AI & the Future of Technology2008.10.16
Marx’s Theory of the Human from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technology (Lecture Notes for a Class Report in Marxist Philosophy)
Since so many of the selected students are all speaking around Marx’s humanism, I think that as for the overall line of Marx’s anthropology, as well as the sorting out of some basic concepts such as alienation, everyone will probably do better than I can. In particular, the students of Marxist philosophy and Western philosophy should be well practiced in this. And whether in terms of overall grasp or close reading of specific texts, I am an outsider; although I do have some of my own thoughts and takeaways, if other students can speak better here, then I need not make a fool of myself. I am not being modest….
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2008年10月16日
About My Private Residence

Life & Notes2008.09.25
About My Private Residence
xyt, if you don’t like this kind of thing, don’t come in~ About My Private Residence It has been more than a year since I moved from the former “Yangroupao Dwelling” into my new home; after going to graduate school I simply stopped applying for dormitory housing, so I can be said to have settled down here. At the very least, before I have children, this will certainly be my permanent residence. I once wrote a special piece on “Yangroupao Dwelling” and posted many photos, yet after moving into the new place for a year I still never mentioned it on the blog, merely slipping the new address in quietly…
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2008年9月25日
Mathematics Is a Technical Craft… Some Additional Notes on Learning High School Mathematics

History of Science & Scholarship2007.10.28
Mathematics Is a Technical Craft… Some Additional Notes on Learning High School Mathematics
Last year I wrote a piece, “On Learning Middle School Mathematics”; the discussion below can be taken as a supplement to it. In the ending of that piece, I gave the so-called very “origin” kind of math problem, and this discussion picks up right from there. What follows is an excerpt from my chat log with UNIC. I’m too lazy to rewrite it all over again, so I’ll just file it away here as a record. The only help I can offer you is this sort of empty talk, because since mathematics is a kind of technical art, the mathematics “coach” really has to teach hands-on, step by step; teaching…
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2007年10月28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
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.31
A Third Path One Can Choose—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology
The Third Path That Can Be Chosen—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology Introduction American philosopher of technology Andrew Feenberg is a representative of contemporary Western Marxist philosophy of technology. His critical theory of technology seeks to open up a “third path” in philosophy of technology—Feenberg hopes to carve out a new route between the traditional optimism and pessimism about technology, inheriting the critique and reflection on modern technology found in the Frankfurt School, Heidegger, Ellul, and other pessimists, while also retaining something of the utopian ideal found in Marx and in theorists of technology as a tool. Feenberg believes that he will “preserve the strengths of both theories while…
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2007年5月31日
Outline for the First Discussion in the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology

AI & the Future of Technology2007.04.12
Outline for the First Discussion in the Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
Instructions: 1. Every student enrolled in the course must prepare carefully in light of the lecture notes and assigned readings, and take an active part in discussion. This discussion class is also a quiz, and the grade will account for 20% of the final course grade. Anyone absent will receive a score of 0. Anyone who attends class but does not speak will receive a score of 0. 2. Audit students are welcome to prepare carefully and participate actively in discussion. 3. Every question should be prepared seriously, but questions in which one has greater interest and for which one has a stronger knowledge base may be given priority. Everyone…
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2007年4月12日
Useless Technology? — Reflections on Mumford’s Philosophy of Technology

AI & the Future of Technology2007.04.05
Useless Technology? — Reflections on Mumford’s Philosophy of Technology
Today’s introduction to philosophy of technology class talked about Mumford, and his views are very interesting. Mumford criticized the traditional account of human origins that says “man is the maker of tools,” replacing it with “man is the maker of symbols/meanings.” He upheld an idealist view of human nature, believing that human needs are first and foremost not material but spiritual. He thought that Maslow’s sequence—from the needs of survival, material provision, and food and clothing, all the way up to the needs for safety, aesthetics, and self-actualization—was exactly backwards: humans first have a need for self-actualization, and within any material need there already permeates a prior spiritual need. Mumford…
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2007年4月5日
The Classic 28-Inch Bicycle

Life & Notes2007.03.25
The Classic 28-Inch Bicycle
Since the start of the semester I have been in a no-bike state: the battered old28 was finally stolen away (the lock had broken and I had ignored it all along, until at last it could not get through the year-end after all…), and if I wanted to buy a brand-new old28, I would need to make an appointment more than two weeks in advance—because that old-fashioned model is no longer produced in large numbers. This model is old-fashioned to the extreme: seehttp://www.cnforever.com/zjyj/i_5_09.htm In May 1962, in order to better meet the performance requirements for load-carrying, and to produce bicycles for the broad masses of peasant friends that met their…
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2007年3月25日
Supplementary Questions from the Marx Lecture in the Philosophy of Technology Class

AI & the Future of Technology2007.03.16
Supplementary Questions from the Marx Lecture in the Philosophy of Technology Class
Supplement to the classroom questions: My confusion arose because I had first listened to Professor Wu’s lecture at Tsinghua and read the transcript of Professor Wu’s remarks on “Technology as the difference of being,” and only then looked at Marx, where everything felt extremely, extremely familiar—so familiar that it seemed Marx and Professor Wu were basically saying the same thing! First let me talk about my reading of some of Marx’s views on “human essence” in the 1844 manuscripts: Marx says: “The externalization of labor appears … first, that labor is external to the worker, that it does not belong to his essence; that therefore he does not affirm…
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2007年3月16日