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March 30, 2006
From the air
（忘记票据，谈起罗马。）
记忆是染色的镜片，比如曼谷，比如罗马，还有你－七座清真寺的城市。
(First time blogging in a Boeing. Thanks, Lufthansa!)
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Public Sphere and Public Opinion
"By 'public sphere' we mean first of all a domain of our social life in which such a thing as public opinion can be formed. "
"Access to the public sphere is open in principle to all citizens...... Citizens act as a public when they deal with matters of general interest without being subjected to coercion; thus with the guarantee that they may assemble and unite freely, and express and publicize their opinion freely."
This space in Habermas' sense has never existed in China, weather late Qing or today.
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March 23, 2006
Online organising, real world responses, new world consequences
From Tracey Benson, (thanks Howard!):
This paper will focus on the relevance of online mailing lists and independent media sites to foster discussion and rally action around a particular cause. In particular I will be focusing on the refugee activst movement in Australia over the last 5 years and discuss some of the potential implications of the new Anti-Terrorist laws on this movement.
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March 21, 2006
Web 1.0 syllabus
From Prof. McCormick's class:
The central question for this course is if or how the Internet changes the politics of the world in which we live. For our purposes, politics will be defined broadly to include issues such as identity, organization, stratification, and relative power. We will put this question into an historical context, compare the Internet with other media, and consider international implications. We will review the utopian expectations that some held at the birth of the Internet, the cynical expectations of their detractors, and allow for the possibility of creative and unexpected answers.
It has been two and half years!
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March 20, 2006
Inside and Outside
"Inside and outside are inseparable. The world is wholly inside and I am wholly outside of myself."
He sees the body as providing the basis for one's orientation to the world. The uniqueness of orientation is what makes it "essential to me not only to have a body, but to have this body."
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"I am a field, an experience."
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Consciousness, i.e. the intention to mean something, does not in fact make words mean what they do. Intention outrun speech and the language outrun us because of "a surplus of the signified over the signifying."
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Freedom is situated in the world, and "the world is already constituted, but also never completely constituted."
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"My freedom...... has not the power to transform me instantaneously into what I decide to be." Furthermore, I am not alone in the world. "My life must have a significance which I do not constitute; there must strictly speaking be an intersubjectivity."
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March 19, 2006
Antonio Gramsci and informal education
This is resistance:
If the hegemony of the ruling capitalist class resulted from an ideological bond between the rulers and the ruled, what strategy needed to be employed? The answer to those questions was that those who wished to break that ideological bond had to build up a ‘counter hegemony’ to that of the ruling class. They had to see structural change and ideological change as part of the same struggle. The labour process was at the core of the class struggle but it was the ideological struggle that had to be addressed if the mass of the people were to come to a consciousness that allowed them to question their political and economic masters right to rule. It was popular consensus in civil society that had to be challenged and in this we can see a role for informal education.
...... the fundamental importance of the ideological struggle to social change meant that this struggle was not limited to consciousness raising but must aim at consciousness transformation.
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March 17, 2006
The point of Panopticon
The point of Panopticon is to train individuals to see themselves as being seen.
"He who is subjected to a field of visibility. and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constrains of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection." In general, individuals are complicit in the process of their self-formation and they learn to normalize themselves.
Indeed, normalization does not suppress individualization, but produce it. However, what it is to be an individual changes once the disciplinary regime colonizes and supplants the older juridical regime.
-- D. C. Hoy
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The point of Panopticon
The point of Panopticon is to train individuals to see themselves as being seen.
"He who is subjected to a field of visibility. and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constrains of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection." In general, individuals are complicit in the process of their self-formation and they learn to normalize themselves.
Indeed, normalization does not suppress individualization, but produce it. However, what it is to be an individual changes once the disciplinary regime colonizes and supplants the older juridical regime.
-- D. C. Hoy
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March 16, 2006
Derrida is wrong
Death is NOT only a word.
An infinite life
would lack the sense for
what matters
or even
lack the sense of
selfhood
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March 15, 2006
Breaking away from the page metaphor
Rather than following the notion of the Web as book, they are predicated on microcontent. Blogs are about posts, not pages. Wikis are streams of conversation, revision, amendment, and truncation. Podcasts are shuttled between Web sites, RSS feeds, and diverse players. These content blocks can be saved, summarized, addressed, copied, quoted, and built into new projects. Browsers respond to this boom in microcontent with bookmarklets in toolbars, letting users fling something from one page into a Web service that yields up another page. AJAX-style pages feed content bits into pages without reloading them, like the frames of old but without such blatant seams. They combine the widely used, open XML standard with Java functions.3 Google Maps is a popular example of this, smoothly drawing directional information and satellite imagery down into a browser.
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March 12, 2006
Cybernomad?
"A person engaged in networking is not a roaming nomad, but someone who keeps a home base. " - Jan Van Dijk
He wrote: Theory Outline - Outline of a Multilevel Theory
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March 06, 2006
Podcasting for teachers
From the university of wisconsin - madison:
- Podcasting is a new Internet technology that educators can use to provide students with audio recordings they can listen to anytime, any place - even when they are not connected to a computer.
- The term podcast implies the ability to deliver audio programs like other broadcast media but it has some significant differences and advantages:
- Students can download podcasted audio programs and listen wherever they go, whenever they like;
- New episodes of a podcast are automatically downloaded;
- Instructors can limit the listening audience to students in their course;l
- Instructors can record and publish their own podcasts;
- Podcast production does not require recording studios or professional equipment.
(Thanks Howard!)
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March 05, 2006
Wine Country
Blue Subaru
Crossing
Sonoma country
In the rain
Green hills
Singing silently
Through
Trunks in distance ......
"Singing and thinking are stems
neighbor to poetry
They grow out of Being and reach into
its truth
Their relationship makes us think of what
Hölderlin sings of the trees of the woods:
'And to each other they remain unknown,
So long as they stand, the neighboring trunks.'"
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March 02, 2006
The Savvy Post
washingtonpost.com last week announced the launch of a partnership with De.licio.us. The deal allows us to offer tagging capabilities on all articles on the site. The service launched on February 23.
By taking advantage of this partnership, washingtonpost.com readers will now be able to save articles into del.icio.us's central database, which allows for easy retrieval for reading at a later date or for you to share your favorite articles with other readers.
And more.
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March 01, 2006
沉潜之道
阴－沉默
阳－出剑
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