”意指“

费斯克的《关键概念》远远不是一本“词典”,其多层相关,应和参照的文本提供的是一种复调,有机,开放的阅读经验。 … … 一方是符号(或符号系统),一方是指涉之现实(referential reality),两方之间的关系就是“signification。”(被翻译成”意指“,甚不清晰。)

The Anathema

“This idea that the brain might be assembled in much the same way as the rest of the body—on the […]

The Reichstag

Christo and Jeanne-Claude rapped the Reichstag on June 23, 1995. You were there seven years later, quietly entering those sober […]

Augment Reality

How many efforts are there to mingle virtual and physical worlds? Media linked to location, adding information and communication to […]

The Fog of War

Still digesting the event of last week: McNamara in Berkeley. When all is said and done, only the voice of […]

星期六的下午

在Peets的外面久坐 重读《神话结构》 阳光暖暖地斜射下来 照在脸上 蓝色贝雷帽的女子 怀抱着吉他轻唱 (十五年前,电报街头 也是这样的阳光)

Theoretical Questions

What particular features of digital information networks, like presence of email groups and online communities, and the propensity of individual […]

Two Visions of Cosmic Destiny

This is from yesterday’s New York Times. One is the Hubble Telescope detected the Pillars of Creation. The other is […]

网络四步曲

普适互联属于物理层面,应用计算、社会软件属于知性层面,虚拟社区和网路行动族属于社会层面,而涌现智能则属于精神层面。在这数位,互动,对等,社区,局域,多对多或者任意点对任意点传播的文化背后,是人的自主和创造的价值。 新文化是普适的,并且将人际交流回归到局域关联场去,但不再全能,不再环绕单一吸引子如意义(宗教),理性(哲学),实验(科学)或者受众(媒体)而决定身份,这是和书写有深刻不同的地方。(艺术不能等同于书写。) 而一些后现代哲学家们将普适和全能混爻为一,一反全反,面对新文化,则会迷了心性。